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Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:48:00 +0000 |
Ares Caps Redemptions as Private Credit Pressures Build
Ares Management has begun limiting withdrawals from its Strategic Income Fund as redemption requests rise across the private credit industry.
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Wed, 25 Mar 2026 13:35:16 +0000 |
SCHD Just Made Big Changes. Is This Dividend Growth ETF Still a Buy?
The Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF (NYSEARCA:SCHD) stands as one of the most popular dividend-growth vehicles on the market. Since its inception on October 20, 2011, the fund has delivered a cumulative total return of 478%, equating to a 13.3% annualized average. With a current yield of 3.3%, SCHD has turned a hypothetical $10,000 investment ... SCHD Just Made Big Changes. Is This Dividend Growth ETF Still a Buy?
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Wed, 25 Mar 2026 10:00:36 +0000 |
Morning Brief: 3 factors have made for big historical stock market losses
In addition to monitoring the Iran situation, we're watching software stocks as Anthropic's new capacities may put them back into the hot seat.
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Wed, 25 Mar 2026 09:00:34 +0000 |
How private credit could quickly become a public problem
Investors are increasingly yanking their money from private credit funds that lend directly to businesses on worries that could unfortunately become all of our worries, whether we’re trading stocks or just going about our own lives.
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Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:59:45 +0000 |
How Is Ares Management's Stock Performance Compared to Other Financial Stocks?
While Ares Management has considerably underperformed its industry peers recently, analysts remain moderately optimistic about the stock’s prospects.
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Tue, 24 Mar 2026 22:05:10 +0000 |
How Ares Strategic Income Fund’s Redemption Cap Will Impact Ares Management (ARES) Investors
Ares Management recently limited quarterly withdrawals from its roughly US$10.70 billion Ares Strategic Income Fund to 5% of shares after investors requested redemptions for 11.6%, joining other large private credit managers in tightening liquidity amid heavier outflows from the asset class. The fund manager said most redemption requests came from a small group of family offices and smaller institutions representing under 1% of shareholders, highlighting how concentrated selling by a few...
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Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:10:24 +0000 |
Software Stocks Drop on Report Amazon Is Developing AI Tools
(Bloomberg) -- Software stocks dropped on Tuesday after a report on new AI tools from Amazon.com Inc. rekindled the disruption fears that have roiled the sector in the past few months.Amazon’s cloud-computing arm, Amazon Web Services, is developing an AI agent to automate some of functions for sales, business development and other groups that have been targeted in the tech giant’s sweeping job cuts, the Information reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The agent being developed by AW
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Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:56:03 +0000 |
Sector Update: Financial Stocks Rise Late Afternoon
Financial stocks rose in late Tuesday afternoon trading, with the NYSE Financial Index up 0.5% and t
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Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:21:58 +0000 |
Private credit 'contagion' could be 'overblown,' says market expert
<body><p>STORY: Ares Management on Tuesday became the latest alternative asset manager to cap investor withdrawals at a private credit fund after a surge in redemption requests.</p><p>The move mirrors similar recent decisions by rival private capital firms to cap redemptions at the 5% limit, including Apollo Global and BlackRock's HPS Corporate Lending Fund.</p><p>Shares in Ares, which managed roughly $623 billion in assets at the end of 2025, fell more than 1% in Tuesday afternoon trading. The stock has plunged roughly 35% so far this year.</p><p>Conzo notes that private credit firms lend "about 25%" of their holdings to software companies, which are "under distress right now" because of AI disruption "fears."</p><p>That's led to investor concerns that private credit companies who lend to software companies will "get hurt," Conzo said.</p><p>But the panic, he added, is based on "a lot predicting going on," prompting what he called "self-feeding" that "some would argue is a little overblown."</p></body>
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Tue, 24 Mar 2026 18:07:54 +0000 |
Sector Update: Financial Stocks Rise Tuesday Afternoon
Financial stocks were up in Tuesday afternoon trading, with the NYSE Financial Index slightly higher
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Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:35:31 +0000 |
Ares, Apollo Cap Private Credit Fund Withdrawals as Exodus Grows
Two of the biggest names in private credit, Ares Management Corp. and Apollo Global Management Inc., blocked investors from getting even half of the money they wanted out of their funds, a sign of mounting strain in the $1.8 trillion market. The $10.7 billion Ares Strategic Income Fund limited withdrawals to 5% of shares after clients sought to redeem 11.6%, according to a letter to shareholders Tuesday. That followed the $15.1 billion business development company, Apollo Debt Solutions, which said Monday it was imposing the same cap after requests to pull 11.2%. Bloomberg's Paul Gulberg joins to discuss.
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Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:15:00 +0000 |
Big Banks Are Playing Both Sides of the Private-Credit Meltdown
Private-credit funds’ exposure to software has come back to bite them, presenting new risks and opportunities for banks.
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Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:36:18 +0000 |
Top Midday Stories: Sumitomo Mitsui Says No Immediate Plan to Acquire Jefferies; Janus Gets $52/Share Offer From Trian, General Catalyst
The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up, while the S&P 500 Index and Nasdaq Composite were down, as
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Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:19:17 +0000 |
Apollo Stock Falls After Private-Credit Fund Caps Redemptions
Shares of Apollo Global Management (APO) dropped about 5% after one of its private-credit funds said it will enforce a cap on withdrawals amid a rise in redemption requests. Shares of other alternative-asset managers including Blackstone, KKR and Ares Management, which also said it limited redemptions on a fund, slid more than 3%.
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Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:13:47 +0000 |
Ares Fund Limits Redemptions After 11.6% Ask to Pull Money Out
Private-credit fund manager Ares Management received redemption requests for 11.6% of shares in its $21.5 billion “semiliquid” business development company for the quarter ending March 20 and will limit payouts to 5%, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing by the fund. The majority of repurchase requests were made by a limited number of family offices and smaller institutions representing less than 1% of the BDC's shareholders, Ares said. Business development companies, or BDCs, typically make high-interest loans to midsize corporations with junk credit ratings, using income from the loans to pay big dividends to their investors.
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Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:51:32 +0000 |
Ares Management stock falls after limiting fund withdrawals
Investing.com -- Ares Management (NYSE:ARES) shares fell 4% Tuesday after the Financial Times reported the company limited withdrawals from its $10.7 billion Ares Strategic Income Fund.
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Mon, 23 Mar 2026 17:18:00 +0000 |
Why the Pullback From Private Credit Funds Could Actually Help Blue Owl and Others
Interest profit margins narrowed again on loans made by publicly traded credit funds. The margin between the rates funds can charge on loans and the rates they themselves pay for money is called the spread. Spreads on new loans dipped by about 0.15 to 0.25 of a percentage point in the December quarter, to 5.23%, reports Raymond James analyst Robert Dodd in a Monday analysis.
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Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:30:00 +0000 |
Are liquidity risks testing the stability of private credit?
S&P Global Ratings global head of private markets analytics, Ruth Yang, joins Julie Hyman to break down the rising pressure in private credit markets amid liquidity concerns as more investors withdraw from these funds.
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Fri, 20 Mar 2026 17:28:00 +0000 |
Investors Are Fleeing Private Credit. What the Funds Should Do Now.
Private credit was initially an investment mainly for institutions. Then the industry made a big bet on retail investors.
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Fri, 20 Mar 2026 16:23:00 +0000 |
T. Rowe Price Broadens Alternative Investment Suite With OFLEX Launch
TROW and Oak Hill launch OFLEX, a flexible, multi-strategy credit fund that offers income and liquidity for wealth clients.
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