SEC-Registered Investment Adviser
Ares Management LLC
Registration facts are from the firm's Form ADV Part 1A as published by the SEC, latest filing dated August 26, 2026. Figures are firm-level: they describe the advisory firm, not any single offering.
Registration
- Status
- Approved
- Registered since
- January 31, 2005
- Principal office
- 1800 Avenue Of The Stars, Suite 1400, Los Angeles, CA 90067
- Organized as
- Limited Liability Company, DE
- Fiscal year end
- December
- Umbrella registration
- Yes, 71 relying advisers
- Other offices
- 67
- Website
- www.aresfoundation.org
Scale
- Regulatory AUM
- $458.8B
- Discretionary / non-discretionary
- $434.0B / $24.9B
- Attributable to non-US clients
- $257.6B
- Accounts
- 715
- Clients
- 0
- Employees
- 3,990, 1,550 in advisory roles
- Private funds advised
- 682
- Private fund gross assets
- $417.6B
- Fund types
- 255 hedge funds, 157 private equity funds, 113 real estate funds, 5 venture capital funds, 54 other private funds
- Client assets in custody
- $368.1B (545 clients)
Business, clients and compensation, as filed
- Advisory activities
- portfolio management for pooled investment vehicles and portfolio management for businesses and institutional clients
- Compensated by
- a percentage of assets under management and performance-based fees
- Client types
- pooled investment vehicles (655); pension and profit sharing plans (13); other investment advisers; insurance companies (27); sovereign wealth funds and foreign official institutions; corporations or other businesses; other (7)
- Also engaged as
- commodity pool operator or commodity trading advisor
- Related persons include
- a broker-dealer, another investment adviser, a commodity pool operator or commodity trading advisor and a sponsor, general partner or managing member of pooled investment vehicles
- Affiliates
- 2 broker-dealers, 10 investment advisers
Form ADV Item 11 disclosures
The firm answered yes to the following Item 11 questions. The answers cover the firm and its advisory affiliates; the Disclosure Reporting Pages on IAPD identify the subject and the outcome.
- SEC or CFTC finding of a violation of regulations or statutes (Item 11C(2))
- SEC or CFTC order against the firm or an affiliate (Item 11C(4))
- SEC or CFTC civil money penalty or cease-and-desist (Item 11C(5))
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Source: SEC Form ADV via IARD (roster of October 6, 2026), matched to the platform by AltStreet analysts. Item 11 answers are as reported on the firm's Form ADV and cover the firm and its advisory affiliates; consult the firm's IAPD record for the Disclosure Reporting Pages. Brochure statements are the firm's own. Nothing on this page is investment advice.