Ares Says AI, Private Credit And Secondaries Are Emerging As Key Growth Drivers

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Ares reported that confidentiality agreements with sponsors increased roughly 35% quarter over quarter while new deals entering its pipeline climbed about 30%, suggesting M&A-backed lending could strengthen during the second half of 2026.\nBeyond direct lending, Arougheti highlighted the rapidly expanding secondary market as another long-term growth opportunity.\n“Within secondaries, market volumes continue to grow as the need for distributions and enhanced liquidity remains a central theme across private markets,” he said.\nHe noted that credit secondaries volumes during the first six months of 2026 had already matched all of 2025, as institutional investors increasingly look to sell limited partner interests while general partners pursue continuation vehicles to return capital without exiting high-quality assets.\nDuring the Q&A, Arougheti also said secondaries remain attractive because they offer investors diversified exposure with lower volatility than traditional buyout funds.\n“If you were to look at PE secondary returns, first quartile to fourth quartile, the dispersion of returns is much tighter than you see in the primary market,” he said, adding that investors are effectively buying diversified private equity exposure while reducing volatility through discounts to net asset value.\nAlongside private credit and secondaries, Arougheti said AI is already improving productivity across the firm.\nAres is using AI to automate repetitive tasks including request-for-proposal responses, due diligence questionnaires, anti-money laundering reviews, know-your-customer compliance and legal document analysis. Investment teams are also applying AI to proprietary deal and portfolio data to improve sourcing, underwriting and portfolio management.\n“We’re already seeing the benefits in terms of capacity increasing and margin improvement,” Arougheti said.\nHe added that the next phase will be using decades of proprietary investment data—including transactions Ares completed as well as those it passed on—to improve future investment decisions.\nArtificial intelligence is also creating new investment opportunities for the firm. Executives pointed to surging demand for AI infrastructure as a key growth driver for Ares’ digital infrastructure platform, which finances and develops data centers and related power assets for hyperscale customers. Management said fundraising remains strong as demand for computing continues to accelerate.\nTaken together, Ares suggested the convergence of institutional private credit demand, expanding secondary markets and AI adoption is creating multiple avenues for growth, both by improving how the firm invests and by generating new opportunities to deploy capital.\nPhoto: Shutterstock\nThis content was partially produced with the help of AI tools and was reviewed and published by Benzinga editors.\nTo add Benzinga News as your preferred source on Google, click here.","kind":"highlight","is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":false,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":false,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"1","news_tag":"","news_rank":0,"isVideo":false,"video":null,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":0,"need_auth":false,"need_login_tip":false,"code":"91000000","status":"200"}}}