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Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:16:31 +0000	A Look At Ares Management’s Valuation After Recent Share Price Weakness Why Ares Management (ARES) Is On Investors’ Radar Today Ares Management (ARES) has drawn fresh attention after a recent share price slide, with the stock showing a 1 day decline of 1.5% and negative returns over the past month and over the past 3 months. See our latest analysis for Ares Management. The recent pullback fits into a tougher period for Ares Management, with a 30 day share price return of 10.82% and a 90 day share price return of 37.01%, while the 5 year total shareholder return...
Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:37:54 +0000	Blue Owl, HPS Join Private Credit Funds Stung by February Losses (Bloomberg) -- Private credit funds already under strain from heavy redemptions have a new pain point: losses in February are shaping up as the worst in more than three years.Two of the biggest retail-focused funds from Blue Owl Capital Inc. and BlackRock Inc.’s HPS Investment Partners joined peers in reporting negative returns for the month.Blue Owl Credit Income Corp., a non-traded business development company, lost 0.86% in February, according to Bloomberg calculations based on regulatory fil
Fri, 27 Mar 2026 19:49:31 +0000	Oaktree Meets 100% Redemptions on $7.7B Fund, Allows 8.5% Withdrawals Brookfield adds $80 million to support withdrawals as Oaktree diverges from peers enforcing redemption limits.
Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:53:54 +0000	Oaktree Meets Redemptions, Tests Private Credit Liquidity Full payout signals resilience as scrutiny on private credit rises
Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:11:00 +0000	Private Credit Squeeze: Billions Trapped as Investors Rush for Exit ARES, APO, BLK, BX and OWL face pressure as $13B in private credit exits strain liquidity, leaving $4.6B trapped and exposing cracks in the $2T market.
Thu, 26 Mar 2026 15:39:43 +0000	Private Credit Funds Trap $5 Billion as Investors Rush for Exit Apollo Global Management Inc. and Ares Management Corp. this week became the latest firms to limit redemptions, joining a list that includes the likes of BlackRock Inc. and Morgan Stanley.
Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:05:47 +0000	Private Credit Stress Tests Investor Conviction Blackstone and Apollo push back as redemption pressure builds
Thu, 26 Mar 2026 06:54:11 +0000	Private Credit Fund Managed by Ares Posts Steepest Ever Monthly Loss A private credit fund managed by Ares Management posted its steepest monthly loss on record in February, providing further evidence of deteriorating performance in the $1.8 trillion private credit market. Bloomberg's Sinead Cruise has more.
Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:15:00 +0000	Month-End Portfolio Data Now Available For Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund, Inc. NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / March 25, 2026 / Ares Capital Management II LLC today announced that monthly fund composition and performance data for Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund, Inc. (NYSE:ARDC) as of February 28, 2026, is now available ...
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 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.
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.
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...
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
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
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>
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
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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