What SEC filings does Ares Management Corporation submit to the SEC?

Ares Management Corporation (ARES) submits several types of SEC filings including Form 4 (insider transactions), Form 144 (proposed insider sales), 8-K reports (material events such as earnings releases, acquisitions, leadership changes), and periodic reports — the 10-Q (quarterly) and 10-K (annual). All filings are publicly available through SEC EDGAR.

What does a Form 4 filing tell me about ARES?

A Form 4 for ARES discloses a transaction by a company insider — typically a director, officer, or 10%+ shareholder. It shows the source-reported date, number of shares, price, and updated ownership. These facts do not establish motive or predict future returns.

How do I interpret an 8-K filing from Ares Management Corporation?

An 8-K signals a material event requiring prompt disclosure. Common triggers include earnings pre-announcements, acquisitions, leadership appointments or departures, credit changes, or regulatory actions. Read the item codes inside the filing to understand exactly what was disclosed before drawing conclusions.

What is the difference between a 10-K and 10-Q for ARES?

The 10-K is Ares Management Corporation's annual report with fully audited financial statements, comprehensive MD&A, and complete risk factor disclosures — filed 60–90 days after fiscal year-end. The 10-Q is a lighter quarterly report with unaudited financials filed for the first three quarters. Together they provide a continuous financial picture of the company.

Where can I see all ARES SEC filings directly on EDGAR?

You can view all historical Ares Management Corporation filings on the SEC EDGAR company page for ARES. Each filing card on this page links directly to the original SEC document.

How often does Ares Management Corporation file with the SEC?

Ares Management Corporation files one 10-K per year and up to three 10-Qs per year. Form 4 insider transactions must be reported within two business days of each trade, so the frequency depends on how often insiders are buying or selling ARES shares. 8-K filings occur whenever a material event happens — which can be several times per quarter for an active company.

ARES SEC Filing News — Ares Management Corporation

Latest SEC filings for Ares Management Corporation (ARES) explained in plain English. Covers insider buying and selling (Form 4), proposed insider sales (Form 144), material company events (8-K), and quarterly & annual reports (10-Q / 10-K). StrongBuyAnalytics provides navigation and brief excerpts or summaries; original filings remain at the SEC/source links and were authored by their filers, not StrongBuyAnalytics. Filing dates shown are source dates. Coverage and detection can be delayed or incomplete because of SEC availability, amendments, parsing, caching, or outages. Latest source filing date shown: 2026-09-30.

Ares Management Corporation operates as an alternative asset manager. Its Direct Lending Group segment provides financing solutions to small-to-medium sized companies. The company's Private Equity Group segment specializes in early venture, turnaround, mid venture, late venture, recapitalization, growth capital, middle market, mezzanine, distressed and growth buyouts. The firm seeks to invest in healthcare, services, energy, industrials and consumer. The firm seeks to takes majority, minority an…

Sector: Financial Services Industry: Asset Management Market Cap: $37.5B

Total Filings

Bullish Classifications

Bearish Classifications

Insider Transactions

Material Events (8-K)

Periodic Reports

Rule-based classifications for ARES currently lean bearish. Of the 20 filing records displayed, 1 carry bearish classifications (such as insider sales or negative 8-K disclosures) versus 0 bullish. This does not necessarily signal fundamental deterioration — insiders sell for many reasons — but it is worth monitoring alongside the company's core financial metrics.

ARES Filing Activity Snapshot 2026-05-01 — 2026-09-30

Insider Transactions (Form 4)

0 buys vs 1 sell

Net insider selling in this period — insiders sell for many reasons beyond conviction.

Largest Form 144 Filing

$235.75M

ARES MANAGEMENT LLC (10% Owner) · 2026-08-17

23,000,000 shares · Form 4

Insider Transactions 12 · Forms 3, 4 and 5

A Form 4 is filed within two business days of a company insider — an officer, a director, or a holder of more than ten percent of the stock — changing their position in the shares. All 12 filings in this group are Form 4s for Ares Management Corporation.

The difficulty with reading these filings as a group is that a single form type covers transactions that mean entirely different things. An executive spending their own money to buy stock and an executive having shares withheld to pay tax on a vesting grant both appear as a Form 4. Every filing below is therefore tagged with the nature of the underlying transaction, taken from the transaction code reported on the form itself.

Across the 12 insider filings shown, the breakdown is 6 compensation award, 3 tax withholding, 2 gift and 1 open-market sale. 1 of them involved a discretionary open-market trade; the rest are compensation and administrative mechanics.

What each transaction type means

Compensation award ×6: Shares were granted as compensation rather than purchased. No cash changed hands, so the filing reflects a pay decision by the company, not a judgement about the price.
Tax withholding ×3: Shares were withheld by the company to settle tax due when equity vested. This is an automatic administrative step and not a decision to sell.
Gift ×2: Shares were transferred as a gift, typically for estate or charitable planning. No sale into the market took place.
Open-market sale ×1: The insider sold shares on the open market. Sales may be discretionary or executed automatically under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, and a Form 4 does not always make clear which applies.

Form 4 Gift Tax / Compensation Filing 2026-08-21

ARES insider Form 4 filed for equity award, exercise, or tax withholding

Jacobson Blair (Co-President) filed a Form 4 covering compensation-related activity such as stock awards, option exercises, conversions, or tax withholding. These filings are usually neutral.

Shares were transferred as a gift, typically for estate or charitable planning. No sale into the market took place.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code	Nature	Shares	Price	Value
`G`	Gift	8,000	—	—

Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: Jacobson Blair (Co-President) Shares: 8,000

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Form 4 Open-market sale Insider Selling 2026-08-17

ARES insider ARES MANAGEMENT LLC (10% Owner) sold 23,000,000 shares (~$235.75M)

ARES MANAGEMENT LLC, listed as 10% Owner at Ares Management Corp, reported an open-market sale of 23,000,000 ARES shares in a Form 4 filing. This is a confirmed insider sale, not just a proposed sale notice.

The insider sold shares on the open market. Sales may be discretionary or executed automatically under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 trading plan, and a Form 4 does not always make clear which applies.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code	Nature	Shares	Price	Value
`S`	Open-market sale	23,000,000	$10.25	$235.75M

Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: ARES MANAGEMENT LLC (10% Owner) Shares: 23,000,000 Est. Value: $235.75M

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Form 4 Compensation award Tax / Compensation Filing 2026-08-03

ARES insider Form 4 filed for equity award, exercise, or tax withholding

BUSH ANTOINETTE COOK (Director) filed a Form 4 covering compensation-related activity such as stock awards, option exercises, conversions, or tax withholding. These filings are usually neutral.

Shares were granted as compensation rather than purchased. No cash changed hands, so the filing reflects a pay decision by the company, not a judgement about the price.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code	Nature	Shares	Price	Value
`A`	Compensation award	1,728	—	—

Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: BUSH ANTOINETTE COOK (Director) Shares: 1,728

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Form 4 Compensation award Tax / Compensation Filing 2026-08-03

ARES insider Form 4 filed for equity award, exercise, or tax withholding

BHUTANI ASHISH (Director) filed a Form 4 covering compensation-related activity such as stock awards, option exercises, conversions, or tax withholding. These filings are usually neutral.

Shares were granted as compensation rather than purchased. No cash changed hands, so the filing reflects a pay decision by the company, not a judgement about the price.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code	Nature	Shares	Price	Value
`A`	Compensation award	1,728	—	—

Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: BHUTANI ASHISH (Director) Shares: 1,728

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Form 4 Compensation award Tax / Compensation Filing 2026-08-03

ARES insider Form 4 filed for equity award, exercise, or tax withholding

Naughton Eileen (Director) filed a Form 4 covering compensation-related activity such as stock awards, option exercises, conversions, or tax withholding. These filings are usually neutral.

Shares were granted as compensation rather than purchased. No cash changed hands, so the filing reflects a pay decision by the company, not a judgement about the price.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code	Nature	Shares	Price	Value
`A`	Compensation award	1,728	—	—

Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: Naughton Eileen (Director) Shares: 1,728

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Form 4 Compensation award Tax / Compensation Filing 2026-08-03

ARES insider Form 4 filed for equity award, exercise, or tax withholding

Olian Judy D. (Director) filed a Form 4 covering compensation-related activity such as stock awards, option exercises, conversions, or tax withholding. These filings are usually neutral.

Shares were granted as compensation rather than purchased. No cash changed hands, so the filing reflects a pay decision by the company, not a judgement about the price.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code	Nature	Shares	Price	Value
`A`	Compensation award	1,728	—	—

Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: Olian Judy D. (Director) Shares: 1,728

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Form 4 Compensation award Tax / Compensation Filing 2026-08-03

ARES insider Form 4 filed for equity award, exercise, or tax withholding

Lynton Michael (Director) filed a Form 4 covering compensation-related activity such as stock awards, option exercises, conversions, or tax withholding. These filings are usually neutral.

Shares were granted as compensation rather than purchased. No cash changed hands, so the filing reflects a pay decision by the company, not a judgement about the price.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code	Nature	Shares	Price	Value
`A`	Compensation award	1,728	—	—

Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: Lynton Michael (Director) Shares: 1,728

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Form 4 Compensation award Tax / Compensation Filing 2026-08-03

ARES insider Form 4 filed for equity award, exercise, or tax withholding

Joubert Paul G. (Director) filed a Form 4 covering compensation-related activity such as stock awards, option exercises, conversions, or tax withholding. These filings are usually neutral.

Shares were granted as compensation rather than purchased. No cash changed hands, so the filing reflects a pay decision by the company, not a judgement about the price.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code	Nature	Shares	Price	Value
`A`	Compensation award	1,728	—	—

Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: Joubert Paul G. (Director) Shares: 1,728

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Form 4 Tax withholding Tax / Compensation Filing 2026-07-02

ARES insider Form 4 filed for equity award, exercise, or tax withholding

Arougheti Michael J (Director, Co-Founder and CEO) filed a Form 4 covering compensation-related activity such as stock awards, option exercises, conversions, or tax withholding. These filings are usually neutral.

Shares were withheld by the company to settle tax due when equity vested. This is an automatic administrative step and not a decision to sell.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code	Nature	Shares	Price	Value
`F`	Tax withholding on vested shares	82,957	$111.31	$9.23M

Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: Arougheti Michael J (Director, Co-Founder and CEO) Shares: 82,957

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Form 4 Tax withholding Tax / Compensation Filing 2026-07-02

ARES insider Form 4 filed for equity award, exercise, or tax withholding

deVeer R. Kipp (Director, Co-President) filed a Form 4 covering compensation-related activity such as stock awards, option exercises, conversions, or tax withholding. These filings are usually neutral.

Shares were withheld by the company to settle tax due when equity vested. This is an automatic administrative step and not a decision to sell.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code	Nature	Shares	Price	Value
`F`	Tax withholding on vested shares	82,957	$111.31	$9.23M

Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: deVeer R. Kipp (Director, Co-President) Shares: 82,957

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Form 4 Tax withholding Tax / Compensation Filing 2026-07-02

ARES insider Form 4 filed for equity award, exercise, or tax withholding

Phillips Jarrod (Chief Financial Officer) filed a Form 4 covering compensation-related activity such as stock awards, option exercises, conversions, or tax withholding. These filings are usually neutral.

Shares were withheld by the company to settle tax due when equity vested. This is an automatic administrative step and not a decision to sell.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code	Nature	Shares	Price	Value
`F`	Tax withholding on vested shares	2,583	$113.63	$293.5K

Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: Phillips Jarrod (Chief Financial Officer) Shares: 2,583

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Form 4 Gift Tax / Compensation Filing 2026-06-04

ARES insider Form 4 filed for equity award, exercise, or tax withholding

Jacobson Blair (Co-President) filed a Form 4 covering compensation-related activity such as stock awards, option exercises, conversions, or tax withholding. These filings are usually neutral.

Shares were transferred as a gift, typically for estate or charitable planning. No sale into the market took place.

Transactions reported on this filing
Code	Nature	Shares	Price	Value
`G`	Gift	8,000	—	—

Filing: Form 4 (Insider Transaction) Insider: Jacobson Blair (Co-President) Shares: 8,000

View on SEC EDGAR → Open Filing Document →

Material Events 6 · Form 8-K

An 8-K reports a material event in the window between scheduled reports. There are 6 in this period for Ares Management Corporation. Each 8-K names the item number it is filed under, and that number is the fastest way to tell a routine disclosure from a consequential one.

Item 2.02 is an earnings release, Item 5.02 is a change of directors or officers, and Item 1.01 or 2.01 covers a material agreement or a completed acquisition. Item 7.01 and Item 8.01 are the general-purpose disclosure items and carry no fixed meaning on their own.

Form 8-K Material Company Update 2026-09-30

ARES filed 8-K — material company event

Ares Management Corp filed an 8-K with the SEC reporting a material event. Summary unavailable — view the original SEC filing for the full text.

Filing: 8-K (Material Event)

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Form 8-K Material Company Update 2026-07-31

ARES filed 8-K — material company event

Ares Management Corp filed an 8-K with the SEC reporting a material event. Summary unavailable — view the original SEC filing for the full text.

Filing: 8-K (Material Event)

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Form 8-K Material Company Update 2026-07-10

ARES filed 8-K — material company event

Ares Management Corp filed an 8-K with the SEC reporting a material event. Summary unavailable — view the original SEC filing for the full text.

Filing: 8-K (Material Event)

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Form 8-K Material Company Update 2026-06-11

ARES filed 8-K — material company event

Ares Management Corp filed an 8-K with the SEC reporting a material event. Summary unavailable — view the original SEC filing for the full text.

Filing: 8-K (Material Event)

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Form 8-K Material Company Update 2026-05-28

ARES filed 8-K — material company event

Ares Management Corp filed an 8-K with the SEC reporting a material event. Summary unavailable — view the original SEC filing for the full text.

Filing: 8-K (Material Event)

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Form 8-K Material Company Update 2026-05-01

ARES filed 8-K — material company event

Ares Management Corp filed an 8-K with the SEC reporting a material event. Summary unavailable — view the original SEC filing for the full text.

Filing: 8-K (Material Event)

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Periodic Reports 2 · Forms 10-K and 10-Q

The periodic reports are where the audited and reviewed financial statements live. This period contains 2 quarterly reports (10-Q) for Ares Management Corporation.

The two are not equivalent in weight. A 10-K is audited by an external firm and includes the full risk factor disclosure, business description and management discussion; a 10-Q is unaudited, reviewed rather than examined, and much shorter. When a figure in a quarterly report is later revised, the annual report is usually where the correction appears.

An amended report — 10-K/A or 10-Q/A — restates or corrects something in the original filing, and is worth reading against the version it replaces.

Form 10-Q Quarterly Report 2026-08-07

ARES filed Quarterly Report (10-Q)

Ares Management Corp filed its quarterly report with the SEC. This report includes unaudited financial statements and management discussion for the quarter.

Filing: 10-Q (Quarterly Report)

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Form 10-Q Quarterly Report 2026-05-08

ARES filed Quarterly Report (10-Q)

Ares Management Corp filed its quarterly report with the SEC. This report includes unaudited financial statements and management discussion for the quarter.

Filing: 10-Q (Quarterly Report)

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How we classify Ares Management Corporation's filings

Straight from EDGAR

Each displayed record links to an original source document. StrongBuyAnalytics provides navigation and brief excerpts or summaries, not the filing itself. Parsing may omit context or contain errors, so read the original document in full.

Transaction codes, not guesswork

The nature shown on each insider filing comes from the transaction code the filer entered on the form itself — P for an open-market purchase, A for a compensation award, F for shares withheld to pay tax, M for an option exercise. Where one filing contains several codes, the transaction table lists them line by line.

Why the distinction matters

Insider activity is routinely summarised as buying or selling, which flattens together decisions that mean very different things. Shares withheld for tax on a vesting grant are an automatic administrative step; shares bought on the open market are someone committing their own money at the current price.

What this page does not tell you

A filing records what happened, not why. Form 4 does not always disclose whether a sale was executed under a pre-arranged Rule 10b5-1 plan, and no single filing is a basis for a decision on ARES. Read these alongside the fundamentals rather than in isolation.

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