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Ares Faces Its Biggest Decision Yet: Stick With Private Credit or Become an Alts Supermarket

Private Equity Insights

Question is: Can it become a one-stop shop for pension funds, endowments, insurers, and sovereign wealth funds eager for exposure to every major alternative-asset class — without diminishing its private credit franchise? Despite staying with private debt, Ares had no trouble keeping pace with the rest of the industry.

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AIMCo CEO Evan Siddall on Shadow Banks and Investing More in Canada

Pension Pulse

It is not monolithic and includes such varied enterprises as pension fund investment managers such as AIMCo , insurance companies, investment banks, broker dealers, hedge funds, mortgage investment companies – and still others.

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Private Equity's Creative Wizardry Posing Systemic Risk?

Pension Pulse

Funds raised money, bought businesses, loaded them with debt, exited at a profit and convinced happy investors to do it all over again — at ever greater scale. Some top industry figures don’t dispute the perils of gulping down more and more varieties of debt. “On Surging borrowing costs have stalled that engine.

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