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Ares Strategic Income Fund

ARES Commercial Real Estate · BDC

Program Overview

BDC
Ares Strategic Income Fund
Peer Group Filters
Objectives
IncomeCapital Appreciation
Asset Class
Private Credit
Vehicle
BDC
Single / Multi Asset
Multi-Asset
Sponsor/Manager
Asset Class
Private Credit
Issuer
Ares Strategic Income Fund
Issuer Legal Structure
Delaware Statutory Trust
Program Life Structure
Evergreen
Target Leverage
Minimum 150% asset coverage 150% asset coverage floor (from 10/7/2022). $12.18B outstanding at 6/30/2026 ($16.42B committed) across a revolver, three funding facilities, three CLOs and unsecured notes.
Strategy Risk/Return Profile
-
Managing Broker-Dealer
Scale
385,282,785 Common shares outstanding (all classes)
Maximum Offering
$15,000,000,000
Raised To Date
$5,584,400,000
Strategy Overview

Externally managed, non-traded BDC seeking current income and, to a lesser extent, long-term capital appreciation. It lends mainly first lien senior secured loans to U.S. middle-market companies (EBITDA $10M-$250M), mostly directly originated, and invests at least 80% of total assets in debt. At 8/31/2026 it held 810 portfolio companies with $21.8B fair value: 77.2% first lien, 92% of debt floating rate, with $11.9B of debt (1.15x debt-to-equity) against about $10.4B NAV.

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