Ares Management Corporation (ARES) Presents at Goldman Sachs 2025 U.S. Financial Services Conference Transcript
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Financial Services Conference December 10, 2025 8:40 AM EST Company Participants Michael Arougheti - Co-Founder, CEO & Director Presentation Unknown Analyst Great. Well, good morning, everybody. We'll get started with our next session. I'd like to welcome Mike Arougheti, CEO of Ares Management, a leading global alternative asset manager with about $600 billion in assets under management and deep expertise in credit, real asset, secondaries and private equity. Over the course of 2025, Ares sustained its industry-leading growth momentum, supported by record pace of fundraising, accelerating deployment and strong investment performance, the nice S&P 500 ad just a day ago. So it was a great way to wrap up the year. Michael AroughetiCo-Founder, CEO & Director Yes. It's a good way to start the week.
Unknown Analyst So a good way to start the week. Thank you for being here. Really appreciate your time here. Michael AroughetiCo-Founder, CEO & Director Good to be here. Thanks. Question-and-Answer Session Unknown Analyst No shortage of topics to discuss, so we'll jump right in. Perhaps not surprisingly, I'd like to start with private credit. As we all know, the market has been a bit anxious about this for quite some time. It feels like investors are trying to move away from the issue a little bit, and I'm not sure whether it's just time away from some of the headlines or something else that's driving this. But what is your assessment of where we are in terms of private credit there? Michael AroughetiCo-Founder, CEO & Director Yes. I think they moved away from it because there was -- they're there, right? And I think the industry did a good job of putting out good fundamental information just to support the strength of the asset class and the quality Recommended For You