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Wed, 04 Mar 2026 16:21:00 +0000	Blue Owl Stock Has Plunged on Private Credit Fears. This Analyst Says They’re Overblown. Wall Street believes Blue Owl Capital has a major credit problem. Chris Kotowski at Oppenheimer disagrees. “We do not believe in the narrative of a broad-based deterioration in private credit,” Kotowski declared in a research report Wednesday.
Wed, 04 Mar 2026 15:08:12 +0000	Jim Cramer Explains Why Ares Management, KKR and Apollo “Traded in Lockstep” Ares Management Corporation (NYSE:ARES) is one of the S&P 500 stocks that Jim Cramer shared his take on. Cramer mentioned the stock during the episode and said: How about the other group of big losers this month? Oh boy, the private equity firms with lots of private credit exposure. Ares Management was the third-worst performing […]
Wed, 04 Mar 2026 05:00:14 +0000	Investors ditch private credit funds on rising worries over bad loans Investors are dumping publicly traded private credit funds as they take losses on bad loans and concerns intensify that AI will wreak havoc on...
Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:25:00 +0000	Blackstone’s Private Credit Fund BCRED Sees Record Redemptions. The Worries Are Growing. Blackstone indicated it saw higher-than-expected redemption requests at its flagship private credit fund.
Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:37:39 +0000	Arougheti Says Iran Hasn't Changed Ares' 2026 Outlook 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.
Tue, 03 Mar 2026 16:36:06 +0000	Apollo CEO warns of shakeout in private credit amid rising defaults Investing.com -- Apollo Global Management Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marc Rowan warned that a shakeout is coming for private credit firms as the industry faces concerns about rising defaults on loans to software companies.
Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:09:42 +0000	Does Ares’ Funding Shift and Capital Recycling Strategy Reframe the Core Narrative for ARES? Ares Management recently priced its second European Direct Lending CLO at over €300 million and filed an omnibus shelf registration covering common and preferred stock, debt securities and other instruments, while also pursuing new deals such as an $850 million continuation fund for Convergint and a roughly £160 million London office acquisition. These moves highlight how Ares is leaning on its scale in private credit, real assets and secondaries to broaden funding options and recycle...
Mon, 02 Mar 2026 22:17:00 +0000	Blueprint Capital Advisors Announces 2026 Power100 Angels Honorees Blueprint Capital Advisors is thrilled to announce the 2026 Power100 list of Angels. This category seeks to amplify and recognize the efforts of those that work for some of the industry's largest and most successful asset management firms and financial institutions. These individuals are leading by example and leveraging their position and platform in ways that benefit others. They recognize that to whom much is given much is required and we deeply appreciate their courage, leadership, and dedic
Mon, 02 Mar 2026 21:30:00 +0000	Ares Closes $850 Million Single-Asset Continuation Vehicle for Convergint Led by Leonard Green & Partners NEW YORK, March 02, 2026--Ares Management Corporation (NYSE: ARES) ("Ares"), a leading global alternative investment manager, announced today that an Ares Private Equity fund has closed a single-asset continuation vehicle with approximately $850 million in total commitments for Convergint Technologies, L.P. ("Convergint" or the "Company"), a global leader in service-based systems integration. The transaction was led and fully underwritten by Leonard Green & Partners’ ("LGP") Sage Fund, which see
Mon, 02 Mar 2026 20:52:27 +0000	Sector Update: Financial Stocks Softer Late Afternoon Financial stocks were lower in late Monday afternoon trading, with the NYSE Financial Index decreasi
Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:49:42 +0000	Sector Update: Financial Stocks Lower in Afternoon Trading Financial stocks were lower in Monday afternoon trading, with the NYSE Financial Index decreasing 0.
Mon, 02 Mar 2026 05:00:16 +0000	Retail investors shun private credit funds after Blue Owl gating Wealthy investors who ploughed hundreds of billions of dollars into private credit are pulling back, cutting off a key source of funds that investment...
Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:11:32 +0000	Shift4, Affirm, Voya Financial, StepStone Group, and Ares Stocks Trade Down, What You Need To Know A number of stocks fell in the afternoon session after the release of a stronger-than-anticipated Producer Price Index (PPI) report showed wholesale inflation rose more than expected in January.
Fri, 27 Feb 2026 17:50:00 +0000	Carlyle Beats Inflows Target in 2025, Sets Bold 2028 Goals CG posts record FRE, AUM and $54B in inflows in 2025, beating targets and setting sights on more than $200B inflows by 2028.
Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:33:38 +0000	Private Credit’s Great Divide: Imminent Crisis or ‘No Big Deal’ To the likes of Jamie Dimon, Mohamed El-Erian and even a money manager from , the parallels with the run-up to the 2008 financial crisis are obvious. El-Erian tagged Blue Owl Capital Inc.’s decision to halt quarterly withdrawals from one of its retail funds a “canary in the coal mine” for the $1.8 trillion private credit market. In an interview with Bloomberg TV on Thursday, Marathon Asset Management LP Chairman Bruce Richards likened the problems in software to “a train coming down the tracks that you could see from some distance.”
Thu, 26 Feb 2026 00:23:17 +0000	A Look At Ares Management’s (ARES) Valuation As Liquidity Concerns Rise In Private Credit Liquidity worries put Ares Management (ARES) in focus Blue Owl Capital limiting withdrawals from a retail private credit fund has pushed liquidity risk to the forefront for the sector, putting alternative managers like Ares Management (ARES) under closer investor scrutiny. At the same time, Ares has been active on the product side, pricing its second European Direct Lending CLO at over €300 million and continuing to build out its European direct lending platform. See our latest analysis for...
Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:30:00 +0000	Ares Management Corporation to Present at the 2026 RBC Capital Markets Global Financial Institutions Conference NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / February 25, 2026 / Ares Management Corporation announced today that its Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Michael Arougheti, is scheduled to present at the 2026 RBC Capital Markets Global Financial Institutions ...
Wed, 25 Feb 2026 21:15:00 +0000	Month-End Portfolio Data Now Available for Ares Dynamic Credit Allocation Fund, Inc. NEW YORK, NY / ACCESS Newswire / February 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 January 31, 2026, is now available ...
Wed, 25 Feb 2026 12:45:47 +0000	AI disruption and private credit: what is the risk scenario? Investing.com -- UBS analyst Matthew Mish stated in a note on Wednesday that investors are increasingly focused on the possibility of a “rapid, severe AI disruption,” outlining how such a tail event could ripple across private credit and broader leveraged finance markets.
Wed, 25 Feb 2026 10:30:00 +0000	Private Equity Was Headed for a Correction, Even Without AI Gloom The market might eventually talk itself down from some of the worst fears about artificial-intelligence disruption of software companies. As owners of, and lenders to, software companies through their funds, the largest private-asset managers have seen their shares sink alongside swaths of the rest of the market in recent sessions.

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