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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 Commercial Real Estate Management LLC
Latest filing Aug 26, 2026
First filing on the tape Nov 10, 2011 · 33 filings
SEC status approved since Nov 14, 2011
RAUM
$32B
reported, Item 5.F
Discretionary
91%
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
412
245 advisory (5.B.1)
Offices
14
beyond the principal office
Private funds
5
reported on Schedule D
History
33 filings and snapshots on the tape
RAUM$32B as of Aug 26, 2026
Mar 30, 2012$1.2B then
HNW client RAUM$0 as of Mar 28, 2024
Mar 30, 2018$0 then
State-registered IARs (5.B.3)0 as of Aug 26, 2026
Mar 30, 20120 then
Employees (5.A)412 as of Aug 26, 2026
Apr 1, 201348 then
Private funds5 as of Aug 26, 2026
Mar 30, 20121 then
RAUM +20% over the last fiscal year+7.1% a year over threeIARs 0 to 0offices 16 to 14
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
- $3.0BderivedRAUM over accounts (5.F.2.f)
- Discretionary
- 91%derivedof RAUM
- Institutional
- 2.2%derivedpensions, charities, corporations, government, insurance, banks, other advisers
- Employees per advisor
- unknownderivedItem 5.A over advisors
- Advisors per office
- unknownderived15 offices incl. principal (1.F.5)
- RAUM growth, one year
- +20%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 vehiclesreportedItem 5.G
- Custody
- $30B, 9 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$32B98%
- Insurance companies$715M2.2%
- Individual clients
- n/areported
- HNW clients
- n/areported
- Pension plan clients
- n/areported
- Charitable clients
- n/areported
- Accounts
- 11reported
- Financial planning clients
- reported
- Wrap fee programs
- noreported
- Custody of client assets
- $30B for 9 clientsreported
- Compensation
- % of AUM, performancereported
- Class basis
- private_client_share=0.0 fund_share=0.98 institutional_share=0.02 related_bd=true related_bank=true bd_reps=13.0derived
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
4 reported on Schedule D 7.B.(1)
| Fund | Type | Gross assets | Owners | First reported |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ares Real Estate Enhanced Income Fund, L.P. | Hedge Fund | $4.7B | 50 | Feb 8, 2019 |
| Ares Real Estate Secured Income Fund, L.P. | Real Estate Fund | $1.0B | 30 | Mar 29, 2019 |
| Cal Ares Real Estate Debt Partners, LLC | Real Estate Fund | $697M | 2 | Mar 31, 2021 |
| Wrightwood Capital Real Estate Cdo 2005-1, Ltd.no longer reported | Securitized Asset Fund | $0 | 0 | Mar 30, 2012 |
Owners and control persons
Schedule A and B, latest filing
- J (Mi Only) Michael Arougheti · Chief Executive Officer And Presidentcontrolsince 07/2011 · owns less than 5%
- Peter Antony Ressler · Executive Chairmancontrolsince 01/2018 · owns less than 5%
- Facemire Penelope Roll · Chief Compliance Officercontrolsince 03/2024 · owns less than 5%
- Sera Naseem Sagati Aghili · General Counsel And Corporate Secretarycontrolsince 01/2020 · owns less than 5%
- Taesik Yoon · Vice President, Chief Financial Officer And Treasurercontrolsince 08/2021 · 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 · Sole 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 Commercial Real Estate Management LLC as a related person
Offices
Schedule D 1.F, the 25 largest
- Denver, CO70 employees
- New York, NY31 employees
- Atlanta, GA30 employees
- Rutherford, NJ20 employees
- Newport Beach, CA18 employees
- Dallas, TX9 employees
- Oak Brook Terrace, IL8 employees
- Austin, TX4 employees
- El Segundo, CA4 employees
- Chicago, IL3 employees
- Bellevue, WA3 employees
- Mumbai, India3 employees
- West Hartford, CT2 employees
- London, United Kingdom1 employees
- Charlotte, NC1 employees
- Arlington, VA1 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 · 4 to 5May 29, 2026 to Aug 26, 2026
- Advisory employees · 243 to 245Feb 24, 2026 to Mar 27, 2026
- BD registered reps · 95 to 13Feb 24, 2026 to Mar 27, 2026
- Assets in custody · $25B to $30BFeb 24, 2026 to Mar 27, 2026
- Employees · 455 to 412Feb 24, 2026 to Mar 27, 2026
- Other offices · 16 to 14Feb 24, 2026 to Mar 27, 2026
- Discretionary RAUM · $26B to $30BFeb 24, 2026 to Mar 27, 2026
- Non-discretionary RAUM · $718M to $2.9BFeb 24, 2026 to Mar 27, 2026
- Pooled vehicle RAUM · $26B to $32BFeb 24, 2026 to Mar 27, 2026
- RAUM · $27B to $32BFeb 24, 2026 to Mar 27, 2026
- Financial planning clients · unset to Mar 31, 2025 to May 30, 2025
- Accounts · 9 to 11Aug 27, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025
- Advisory employees · 232 to 243Aug 27, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025
- BD registered reps · 86 to 95Aug 27, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025
- Charity clients · 0.0 to unsetAug 27, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025
- Corporate clients · 0.0 to unsetAug 27, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025
- HNW clients · 0.0 to unsetAug 27, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025
- Individual clients · 0.0 to unsetAug 27, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025
- Pension plan clients · 0.0 to unsetAug 27, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025
- Pooled vehicle clients · 8 to 10Aug 27, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025
- Assets in custody · $24B to $25BAug 27, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025
- Employees · 435 to 455Aug 27, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025
- Private funds · 3 to 4Aug 27, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025
- Discretionary RAUM · $26B to $26BAug 27, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025
- HNW RAUM · 0.0 to unsetAug 27, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025
- Individual RAUM · 0.0 to unsetAug 27, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025
- Non-discretionary RAUM · $697M to $718MAug 27, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025
- Pension RAUM · 0.0 to unsetAug 27, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025
- Pooled vehicle RAUM · $26B to $26BAug 27, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025
- RAUM · $26B to $27BAug 27, 2024 to Mar 31, 2025
- Advisory employees · 202 to 232Mar 31, 2023 to Mar 28, 2024
- BD registered reps · 83 to 86Mar 31, 2023 to Mar 28, 2024
- Assets in custody · $23B to $24BMar 31, 2023 to Mar 28, 2024
- Employees · 353 to 435Mar 31, 2023 to Mar 28, 2024
- Other offices · 13 to 16Mar 31, 2023 to Mar 28, 2024
- Discretionary RAUM · $26B to $26BMar 31, 2023 to Mar 28, 2024
- Non-discretionary RAUM · $718M to $697MMar 31, 2023 to Mar 28, 2024
- Pooled vehicle RAUM · $26B to $26BMar 31, 2023 to Mar 28, 2024
- RAUM · $26B to $26BMar 31, 2023 to Mar 28, 2024
- Advisory employees · 150 to 202Mar 31, 2022 to Mar 31, 2023
Signals
12 dated events
- Goldsmith Miriam Krieger (Vice President And Chief Compliance Officer) no longer on Schedule A of Ares Commercial Real Estate Management Llc (listed 2023-03-31, absent 2024-03-28)Mar 28, 2024 · Control person left · inference
- Facemire Penelope Roll (Chief Compliance Officer) appeared on Schedule A of Ares Commercial Real Estate Management LlcMar 28, 2024 · Control person joined · fact
- Ares Commercial Real Estate Management Llc reported RAUM $26.5B, up 37% from $19.3B (2022-03-31 to 2023-03-31)Mar 31, 2023 · RAUM change · derived
- Ares Commercial Real Estate Management Llc reported 13 offices beyond its principal office, up from 6 (2021-03-31 to 2022-03-31)Mar 31, 2022 · Office count change · derived
- Ares Commercial Real Estate Management Llc reported RAUM $19.3B, up 335% from $4.4B (2021-03-31 to 2022-03-31)Mar 31, 2022 · RAUM change · derived
- Robert Michael Mcferran (Vice President, Chief Financial Officer And Treasurer) no longer on Schedule A of Ares Commercial Real Estate Management Llc (listed 2021-03-31, absent 2022-03-31)Mar 31, 2022 · Control person left · inference
- Taesik Yoon (Chief Financial Officer) appeared on Schedule A of Ares Commercial Real Estate Management LlcMar 31, 2022 · Control person joined · fact
- Ares Commercial Real Estate Management Llc reported RAUM $3.7B, up 51% from $2.4B (2019-03-29 to 2020-03-30)Mar 30, 2020 · RAUM change · derived
- Sera Naseem Sagati Aghili (General Counsel And Secretary) appeared on Schedule A of Ares Commercial Real Estate Management LlcMar 30, 2020 · Control person joined · fact
- Daniel Michael Weiner (Vice President, General Counsel And Secretary) no longer on Schedule A of Ares Commercial Real Estate Management Llc (listed 2019-03-29, absent 2020-03-30)Mar 30, 2020 · Control person left · inference
- Ares Commercial Real Estate Management Llc reported RAUM $2.4B, up 37% from $1.8B (2019-02-08 to 2019-03-29)Mar 29, 2019 · RAUM change · derived
- Bernard John Jardine (Vice President) no longer on Schedule A of Ares Commercial Real Estate Management Llc (listed 2019-02-08, absent 2019-03-29)Mar 29, 2019 · Control person left · inference
Across DFX
shared identifiers only, never a name match
No identifier-backed link to the venture, private equity, family office or sponsor graphs.
How to reach
public business contact points only, each with its source
- Firm profile
- linkedin.com/company/marq-logreportedpublic record, Form ADV, Sep 17, 2026
- 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
Across the graphs
Ares Commercial Real Estate Management LLC is the same institution as 1 record in Real Estate Funds.
Real Estate Funds1
Which record it is in each graph, what it is called there, and what the two were joined on. The Data Factory holds all nine graphs and the identity layer between them.
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