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RIA Intelligence
Registered investment advisers, the advisors registered through them, the capital they report, the private vehicles they run and the people who own them, as a graph with a filing date behind every number. RAUM is what the adviser filed, a move is two registration dates, and a class is a rule you can read.
SEC-registered adviser
Ares Capital Management LLC
Latest filing Aug 26, 2026
First filing on the tape Mar 30, 2012 · 42 filings
SEC status approved since May 18, 2004
RAUM
$98B
reported, Item 5.F
Discretionary
94%
of RAUM
Private clients
0.0%
$0 individuals and HNW
Advisors
0
registered through the firm on IAPD
RAUM per advisor
n/a
derived; firm RAUM over IAPD count
Employees
634
411 advisory (5.B.1)
Offices
10
beyond the principal office
Private funds
34
reported on Schedule D
History
42 filings and snapshots on the tape
RAUM$98B as of Aug 26, 2026
Mar 30, 2012$10B then
HNW client RAUM$0 as of Feb 24, 2025
Mar 31, 2018$0 then
State-registered IARs (5.B.3)0 as of Aug 26, 2026
Mar 30, 20120 then
Employees (5.A)634 as of Aug 26, 2026
Apr 1, 201379 then
Private funds34 as of Aug 26, 2026
Mar 30, 20161 then
RAUM +15% over the last fiscal year+17% a year over threeIARs 0 to 0offices 16 to 10
Practice profile
derived from the filing of Aug 26, 2026; every figure names its basis
- RAUM per advisor
- unknownderivedRAUM over IAPD advisors; not a book size
- Clients per advisor
- unknownderivedindividual and HNW clients (5.D) over advisors
- Average HNW client
- unknownderivedHNW RAUM over HNW clients
- Average account
- $1.7BderivedRAUM over accounts (5.F.2.f)
- Discretionary
- 94%derivedof RAUM
- Institutional
- 8.3%derivedpensions, charities, corporations, government, insurance, banks, other advisers
- Employees per advisor
- unknownderivedItem 5.A over advisors
- Advisors per office
- unknownderived11 offices incl. principal (1.F.5)
- RAUM growth, one year
- +15%derivedbetween the last two annual amendments
- Advisor growth, one year
- unknownderivedItem 5.B.3 between annual amendments
- Client growth, one year
- unknownderived
- Compensation
- percentage of assets, performance-basedreportedItem 5.E
- Advisory activities
- portfolio management for businesses and institutions, portfolio management for pooled vehicles, portfolio management for investment companiesreportedItem 5.G
- Custody
- $55B, 40 clientsreportedItem 9.A
- Ownership
- no PE, bank or public-company owner found on Schedule Aderived
- Advisor book size
- not public; not estimatedreported
Also answered yes on Form ADV
- buys or sells securities as principal to or from clients (8.A.2)
- has discretionary authority over which securities are bought or sold (8.C.1)
- receives research or other products from a broker-dealer, soft dollars (8.E)
- has custody of client cash or bank accounts (9.A.1.a)
- has custody of client securities (9.A.1.b)
- a related person has custody of client cash (9.B.1.a)
- a related person has custody of client securities (9.B.1.b)
- marketing includes hypothetical performance (5.L.3)
Where the RAUM sits
Form ADV Item 5.D, latest filing
- Pooled investment vehicles$31B74%
- Sovereign wealth funds$5.1B12%
- Insurance companies$2.6B6.1%
- Banks and thrifts$2.2B5.2%
- Other investment advisers$1.0B2.4%
- State and municipal entities$405M0.9%
- Individual clients
- n/areported
- HNW clients
- n/areported
- Pension plan clients
- n/areported
- Charitable clients
- n/areported
- Accounts
- 57reported
- Financial planning clients
- reported
- Wrap fee programs
- noreported
- Custody of client assets
- $55B for 40 clientsreported
- Compensation
- % of AUM, performancereported
- Class basis
- private_client_share=0.0 fund_share=0.88 institutional_share=0.08 related_bd=true related_bank=true bd_reps=49.0derived
Advisors registered through the firm
0 on IAPD today, longest tenure first
No representative is registered through this CRD on IAPD.
Advisor movement
Left, latest
none on the tape
Joined, latest
none on the tape
Private funds
31 reported on Schedule D 7.B.(1)
Owners and control persons
Schedule A and B, latest filing
- J (Mi Only) Michael Arougheti · Chief Executive Officercontrolsince 06/2018 · owns less than 5%
- Kipp Robert Deveer · Presidentcontrolsince 06/2018 · owns less than 5%
- M Jarrod Phillips · Chief Financial Officercontrolsince 06/2024 · owns less than 5%
- Peter Antony Ressler · Executive Chairmancontrolsince 06/2018 · owns less than 5%
- Facemire Penelope Roll · Chief Compliance Officercontrolsince 03/2024 · owns less than 5%
- Bennett Rosenthal · Vice Presidentcontrolsince 04/2004 · owns less than 5%
- Sera Naseem Sagati Aghili · General Counsel, Vice President And Secretarycontrolsince 01/2020 · owns less than 5%
- Peter Antony Ressler · Limited Partnercontrolsince 01/2002 · owns 25% to 50% of Ares Owners Holdings L.P.
Entity owners
- Ares Management LLC · Memberdirect · owns 75% or more
- Ares Holdco LLC · General Partnerindirect · owns 50% to 75% of Ares Holdings L.P.
- Ares Holdco LLC · General Partnerindirect · owns F of Ares Management Holdings L.P.
- Ares Holdings L.P. · Limited Partnerindirect · owns 75% or more of Ares Management Holdings L.P.
- Ares Management Corporation · Memberindirect · owns 75% or more of Ares Holdco LLC · public reporting company
- Ares Management Holdings L.P. · Memberindirect · owns 75% or more of Ares Management LLC
- Ares Owners Holdings L.P. · Limited Partnerindirect · owns 25% to 50% of Ares Holdings L.P.
- Ares Partners Holdco LLC · General Partnerindirect · owns F of Ares Owners Holdings L.P.
Related persons
Schedule D 7.A
- Ace III Gp (Scotland) Llppooled vehicle sponsorn
- Acip Investment Management LLCinvestment adviserbankpooled vehicle sponsorn
- Aclof III Gp LLCpooled vehicle sponsorn
- Acme Pc Management LPpooled vehicle sponsorn
- Acof Asia Management, L.P.pooled vehicle sponsorn
- Acof Investment Management, LLCinvestment adviserbankn
- Acof IV Atd Co-Invest Management, LLCpooled vehicle sponsorn
- Acof Lux Management Vii S.A R.L.pooled vehicle sponsorn
- Acof Management III, L.P.pooled vehicle sponsorn
- Acof Management IV, L.P.pooled vehicle sponsorn
- Acof Management V, L.P.pooled vehicle sponsorn
- Acof Management Vi Gp LLCpooled vehicle sponsorn
- Acof Management Vi, L.P.pooled vehicle sponsorn
- Acof Management Vii, L.P.pooled vehicle sponsorn
- Acof Management, L.P.pooled vehicle sponsorn
- Acof Operating Manager III, LLCinvestment adviserbankn
- Acof Operating Manager IV, LLCinvestment adviserbankn
- Acof Operating Manager, L.P.investment adviserbankn
- Adrex Advisor LLCinvestment advisern
- Aeif Kleen Gp, LLCpooled vehicle sponsorn
- Aeif Linden Gp, LLCpooled vehicle sponsorn
- Aeof Management Gp LLCpooled vehicle sponsorn
- Aeof Management, L.P.pooled vehicle sponsorn
- Aepep (Scotland) Gp II, Llppooled vehicle sponsorn
- Aepep Gp II, LLCpooled vehicle sponsorn
- Aepep II N Gp, L.P.pooled vehicle sponsorn
- Aepep III N Strategic Co-Invest Gp, L.P.pooled vehicle sponsorn
- Aevf Management Gp LLCpooled vehicle sponsorn
- Aevf Management LPpooled vehicle sponsorn
- Aic Management Ltd.pooled vehicle sponsorn
Advisers that list Ares Capital Management LLC as a related person
Offices
Schedule D 1.F, the 25 largest
- New York, NY151 employees
- London, United Kingdom62 employees
- Chicago, IL20 employees
- Atlanta, GA18 employees
- Tarrytown, NY16 employees
- Mumbai, India14 employees
- Frankfurt, Germany10 employees
- Paris, France9 employees
- Amsterdam, Netherlands5 employees
- Luxembourg, Luxembourg4 employees
- Madrid, Spain4 employees
- New York, NY3 employees
- Dallas, TX2 employees
- Waterloo, IL1 employees
ADV anomalies
1 against comparable advisers; where to look, not conclusions
- large related person networkStatic outlier · filing Aug 26, 2026related persons on Schedule D 7.A of 331.0 against a peer median of 18.0 (428 comparable advisers, 99.0th percentile, 17.6 robust deviations)peers: asset managers, $20B and over (428) · 99% percentile
What changed
consecutive filings, newest first
- Private funds · 33 to 34May 27, 2026 to Aug 26, 2026
- Private funds · 30 to 33Mar 27, 2026 to May 27, 2026
- Advisory employees · 477 to 411Feb 24, 2026 to Mar 27, 2026
- BD registered reps · 37 to 49Feb 24, 2026 to Mar 27, 2026
- Pooled vehicle clients · 39 to 37Feb 24, 2026 to Mar 27, 2026
- Assets in custody · $40B to $55BFeb 24, 2026 to Mar 27, 2026
- Employees · 699 to 634Feb 24, 2026 to Mar 27, 2026
- Other offices · 16 to 10Feb 24, 2026 to Mar 27, 2026
- Private funds · 32 to 30Feb 24, 2026 to Mar 27, 2026
- Discretionary RAUM · $75B to $91BFeb 24, 2026 to Mar 27, 2026
- Non-discretionary RAUM · $10B to $6.3BFeb 24, 2026 to Mar 27, 2026
- Pooled vehicle RAUM · $33B to $31BFeb 24, 2026 to Mar 27, 2026
- RAUM · $85B to $98BFeb 24, 2026 to Mar 27, 2026
- Private funds · 33 to 32May 30, 2025 to Aug 27, 2025
- Financial planning clients · unset to Mar 31, 2025 to May 30, 2025
- Accounts · 44 to 57Feb 24, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025
- Advisory employees · 431 to 477Feb 24, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025
- BD registered reps · 42 to 37Feb 24, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025
- Charity clients · 0.0 to unsetFeb 24, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025
- Corporate clients · 0.0 to unsetFeb 24, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025
- HNW clients · 0.0 to unsetFeb 24, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025
- Individual clients · 0.0 to unsetFeb 24, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025
- Pension plan clients · 0.0 to unsetFeb 24, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025
- Pooled vehicle clients · 25 to 39Feb 24, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025
- Assets in custody · $28B to $40BFeb 24, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025
- Employees · 654 to 699Feb 24, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025
- Other offices · 15 to 16Feb 24, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025
- Discretionary RAUM · $58B to $75BFeb 24, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025
- HNW RAUM · 0.0 to unsetFeb 24, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025
- Individual RAUM · 0.0 to unsetFeb 24, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025
- Non-discretionary RAUM · $10B to $10BFeb 24, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025
- Pension RAUM · 0.0 to unsetFeb 24, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025
- Pooled vehicle RAUM · $30B to $33BFeb 24, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025
- RAUM · $69B to $85BFeb 24, 2025 to Mar 31, 2025
- Private funds · 31 to 33Aug 27, 2024 to Feb 24, 2025
- Other offices · 16 to 15May 28, 2024 to Aug 27, 2024
- Private funds · 26 to 31May 28, 2024 to Aug 27, 2024
- Private funds · 25 to 26Mar 28, 2024 to May 28, 2024
- Accounts · 39 to 44Feb 6, 2024 to Mar 28, 2024
- Advisory employees · 305 to 431Feb 6, 2024 to Mar 28, 2024
Signals
14 dated events
- Ares Capital Management Llc reported 10 offices beyond its principal office, down from 16 (2026-02-24 to 2026-03-27)Mar 27, 2026 · Office count change · derived
- Christopher Scott Lem (Chief Financial Officer) no longer on Schedule A of Ares Capital Management Llc (listed 2024-05-28, absent 2024-08-27)Aug 27, 2024 · Control person left · inference
- M Jarrod Phillips (Chief Financial Officer) appeared on Schedule A of Ares Capital Management LlcAug 27, 2024 · Control person joined · fact
- Ares Capital Management Llc reported 16 offices beyond its principal office, up from 8 (2024-02-06 to 2024-03-28)Mar 28, 2024 · Office count change · derived
- Goldsmith Miriam Krieger (Chief Compliance Officer) no longer on Schedule A of Ares Capital Management Llc (listed 2024-02-06, absent 2024-03-28)Mar 28, 2024 · Control person left · inference
- Scott Lem (Chief Financial Officer) appeared on Schedule A of Ares Capital Management LlcMar 28, 2024 · Control person joined · fact
- Ares Capital Management Llc reported RAUM $55.4B, up 27% from $43.7B (2021-11-19 to 2022-03-31)Mar 31, 2022 · RAUM change · derived
- Ares Capital Management Llc reported 6 offices beyond its principal office, down from 13 (2021-02-10 to 2021-03-31)Mar 31, 2021 · Office count change · derived
- Ares Capital Management Llc reported 13 offices beyond its principal office, up from 8 (2019-08-26 to 2020-03-30)Mar 30, 2020 · Office count change · derived
- Daniel Michael Weiner (Vice President, General Counsel And Secretary) no longer on Schedule A of Ares Capital Management Llc (listed 2019-08-26, absent 2020-03-30)Mar 30, 2020 · Control person left · inference
- Sera Naseem Sagati Aghili (General Counsel And Secretary) appeared on Schedule A of Ares Capital Management LlcMar 30, 2020 · Control person joined · fact
- Ares Capital Management Llc reported 8 offices beyond its principal office, up from 3 (2018-11-16 to 2019-03-30)Mar 30, 2019 · Office count change · derived
- Ares Capital Management Llc reported RAUM $32.3B, up 40% from $23.1B (2018-11-16 to 2019-03-30)Mar 30, 2019 · RAUM change · derived
- Ares Capital Management Llc reported RAUM $23.1B, up 46% from $15.8B (2017-09-29 to 2018-03-31)Mar 31, 2018 · RAUM change · derived
Across DFX
shared identifiers only, never a name match
- Ares Capital Management LLC · Independent Sponsorsshared crd · capital_provider
- Ares Capital Management LLC · Private Equityshared crd · organization
How to reach
public business contact points only, each with its source
- Firm profile
- linkedin.com/company/ares-managementreportedpublic record, Form ADV, Sep 17, 2026
- Website
- areswms.comreportedpublic record, Form ADV, Sep 17, 2026
- Principal office phone
- 310-201-4100reportedpublic record, Form ADV, Aug 26, 2026
Provenance
- Form ADV
- SEC filing data 2011 to 2024 and the monthly roster 2025 onreportedadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Advisors
- IAPD individual compilation feed, dailyreportedadviserinfo.sec.gov
- Class
- Asset manager (funds and pooled vehicles)deriveda rule over Items 5.D and 7.A
- RAUM per advisor
- n/aderivedfirm RAUM over the IAPD count; not a book size
- Loaded
- Sep 14, 2026