The Motley Fool

MAY 5, 2024

As the largest publicly traded business development company ( BDC ) in the U.S., Ares provides private companies with the cash they need to expand. It specializes in loans to "middle-market" businesses that typically have sales of between $10 million and $1 billion.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

By comparison, publicly traded companies that don't offer a payout have clawed their way to a more pedestrian annualized return of 3.95% over the same five-decade stretch. They're just the type of business we'd expect to increase in value over long periods. I'm talking about smaller, generally unproven private companies.

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The Motley Fool

JUNE 8, 2024

Brookfield Renewable (NYSE: BEPC) (NYSE: BEP) is particularly well suited to deliver gains to shareholders fueled by clean energy. Ares operates as a business development company ( BDC ). That's how it can afford to pay such sizable dividends to its shareholders.

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Pension Pulse

JANUARY 31, 2024

For example, Amy Stone of Barron's recently discussed Blackstone’s gigantic private credit fund, BCRED, stating this: The fund, which launched on Jan. annually to investors since inception, the company said in a letter to shareholders on Monday. Like some other private credit vehicles, BCRED has some defensive characteristics.

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