Ares Management Corporation · NYSE:ARES

Ares Management — Q2 2023 Earnings Presentation

46 slides from Ares Management's earnings presentation, Aug 1, 2023

  1. Slide 1: Earnings Presentation Second Quarter 2023

    Earnings Presentation Second Quarter 2023 Exhibit 99.2

  2. Slide 2: Important Notice

    2 Important Notice This presentation is prepared for Ares Management Corporation (“Aresˮ) (NYSE: ARES) for the benefit of its public stockholders. This presentation is solely for information purposes in connection with evaluating the business, operations and financial results of Ares and certain of

  3. Slide 3: Second Quarter 2023 Highlights

    3 Assets Under Management Q2-23 Financial Results Corporate Actions Recent Developments Second Quarter 2023 Highlights 1. Net inflows of capital represents gross capital commitments less redemptions. 2. Unconsolidated management fees includes $12.0 million from Consolidated Funds that are eliminated

  4. Slide 4: Gross New Capital Commitments

    4 Gross New Capital Commitments(1) $ in billions Q2 2023 Commentary Credit Group European Direct Lending $5.0 Equity commitments to various funds, including $3.9 billion for our sixth flagship European direct lending fund U.S. Direct Lending 4.1 Debt and equity commitments to various funds, includin

  5. Slide 5: Assets Under Management

    5 Q2-22 Q1-23 Q2-23 Assets Under Management 1. AUM amounts include vehicles managed by Ivy Hill Asset Management, L.P., a wholly owned portfolio company of ARCC and a SEC-registered investment adviser (“IHAMˮ). AUM as of June 30, 2023 was $377.6 billion, an increase of 13% from prior year(1) • The i

  6. Slide 6: Perpetual Capital

    6 Perpetual Capital Perpetual Capital AUM Perpetual Capital as of June 30, 2023 was $99.5 billion, an increase of 15% from prior year • The increase of $12.8 billion was primarily driven by: ◦ commitments in our U.S. direct lending, alternative credit strategies, our insurance platform and capital r

  7. Slide 7: AUM and Management Fees by Type

    7 8% 7% 7% 5% 61% 12% 26% 7% 6% 5% 51% 5% AUM and Management Fees by Type 88% 1. Long-dated funds generally have a contractual life of five years or more at inception. For the quarter ended June 30, 2023: • 88% of assets under management were perpetual capital or long-dated funds • 95% of management

  8. Slide 8: Available Capital and AUM Not Yet Paying Fees

    8 Q2-22 Q1-23 Q2-23 Available Capital and AUM Not Yet Paying Fees Available Capital as of June 30, 2023 was $95.8 billion, an increase of 5% from prior year • The increase of $4.8 billion was primarily driven by: ◦ fundraising in the European direct lending, alternative credit, U.S. real estate equi

  9. Slide 9: AUM Not Yet Paying Fees Available for Future Deployment

    9 $55.6 $7.8 $1.5 $41.7 $5.5 $6.9 $1.5 AUM Not Yet Paying Fees Available for Future Deployment AUM Not Yet Paying Fees As of June 30, 2023, AUM Not Yet Paying Fees includes $55.6 billion of AUM available for future deployment that could generate approximately $551.6 million in potential incremental

  10. Slide 10: Incentive Eligible AUM and Incentive Generating AUM

    10 Q2-22 Q1-23 Q2-23 Incentive Eligible AUM and Incentive Generating AUM ($ in billions) ($ in billions) Credit(3) Private Equity Real Assets(3) Secondaries(3) Other Total Incentive Generating AUM $59.8 $21.3 $16.0 $6.3 $0.4 $103.8 + Uninvested IEAUM 43.1 8.8 12.2 6.9 1.0 72.0 + IEAUM below hurdle 7

  11. Slide 11: Capital Deployment

    11 $12.0 $0.7 $1.9 $0.6 Q2-23 Gross Capital Deployment Capital Deployment ($ in billions) (2) Capital Deployment in Drawdown Funds ($ in billions) Total Gross Invested Capital during Q2-23 was $15.2 billion compared to $23.7 billion during Q2-22 • Deployment by our drawdown funds was $9.1 billion in

  12. Slide 12: GAAP Statements of Operations

    12 Three months ended June 30, Six months ended June 30, $ in thousands, except share data 2023 2022 2023 2022 Revenues Management fees $615,271 $520,560 $1,215,787 $997,892 Carried interest allocation 418,466 47,304 569,954 225,593 Incentive fees 7,950 4,675 16,873 21,097 Principal investment incom

  13. Slide 13: Financial Summary

    13 RI and Other Measures Financial Summary Three months ended June 30, Six months ended June 30, $ in thousands, except share data (and as otherwise noted) 2023 2022 % Change 2023 2022 % Change Management fees(1) $621,752 $524,881 18% $1,224,371 $1,007,802 21% Fee related performance revenues 854 1,

  14. Slide 14: GAAP to Non-GAAP Reconciliation – Unconsolidated Reporting Basis

    14 GAAP to Non-GAAP Reconciliation – Unconsolidated Reporting Basis Three months ended June 30, Six months ended June 30, $ in thousands 2023 2022 2023 2022 Realized Income and Fee Related Earnings: Income before taxes $381,969 $67,066 $623,091 $228,375 Adjustments: Amortization of intangibles 35,46

  15. Slide 15: GAAP to Non-GAAP Reconciliation – Unconsolidated Reporting Basis (cont'd)

    15 GAAP to Non-GAAP Reconciliation – Unconsolidated Reporting Basis (cont'd) Note: These tables reconcile consolidated carried interest allocation and incentive fees reported in accordance with GAAP to unconsolidated realized performance income and consolidated GAAP other income to unconsolidated re

  16. Slide 16: Credit Group

    16 Credit Group(1) 1. This table is a financial summary only and segment results are shown before the unallocated support costs of the Operations Management Group. Please refer to “Financial Details - Segmentsˮ on slide 24-25 for complete financial results. 2. Composite returns are calculated by ass

  17. Slide 17: Private Equity Group

    17 Private Equity Group(1) Note: Past performance is not indicative of future results. The Private Equity Group had ~90 investment professionals, ~45 portfolio companies and ~10 active funds and related co-investment vehicles as of June 30, 2023. 1. This table is a financial summary only and segment

  18. Slide 18: Real Assets Group

    18 Real Assets Group(1) Note: Past performance is not indicative of future results. The Real Assets Group had ~290 investment professionals, ~505 properties, ~70 infrastructure assets and ~60 active funds and related co-investment vehicles as of June 30, 2023. 1. This table is a financial summary on

  19. Slide 19: Secondaries Group

    19 Secondaries Group(1) Note: Past performance is not indicative of future results. The Secondaries Group had ~70 investment professionals, ~865 limited partnership interests and ~70 active funds and related co- investment vehicles as of June 30, 2023. 1. This table is a financial summary only and s

  20. Slide 20: Realized Income per Share Data

    20 Realized Income per Share Data Three months ended June 30, Six months ended June 30, $ in thousands, except share data 2023 2022 2023 2022 After-tax Realized Income Realized Income before taxes $312,210 $247,245 $566,502 $469,262 Entity level foreign, state and local taxes (5,804) (4,438) (11,086

  21. Slide 21: Balance Sheet

    21 32% 45% 18% 5% Substantial balance sheet value related to investments primarily in Ares managed vehicles and net accrued performance income • As of June 30, 2023, our balance sheet included $276.8 million in cash and cash equivalents and $2,299.7 million in debt obligations, including $725.0 mill

  22. Slide 22: Corporate Data

    22 Corporate Data Board of Directors Michael Arougheti Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and President of Ares Ashish Bhutani Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lazard Asset Management and Former Vice Chairman of Lazard Ltd Antoinette Bush Senior Advisor to News Corp Kipp deVeer Head o

  23. Slide 23: Appendix

    Appendix

  24. Slide 24: Financial Details – Segments (Three months)

    24 Financial Details – Segments Three months ended June 30, 2023 $ in thousands Credit Group Private Equity Group Real Assets Group Secondaries Group Other Operations Management Group Total(1) Management fees $422,662 $55,518 $95,239 $41,785 $6,548 $— $621,752 Fee related performance revenues 222 —

  25. Slide 25: Financial Details – Segments (Six months)

    25 Six months ended June 30, 2023 $ in thousands Credit Group Private Equity Group Real Assets Group Secondaries Group Other Operations Management Group Total(1) Management fees $828,312 $110,175 $192,709 $81,648 $11,527 $— $1,224,371 Fee related performance revenues 822 — 334 3,569 — — 4,725 Other

  26. Slide 26: Weighted Average Shares

    26 Weighted Average Shares 1. Represents proportional dilutive impact based upon the weighted average percentage of Ares Operating Group owned by Ares Management Corporation (60.37% and 59.66% as of June 30, 2023 and 2022, respectively). 2. We apply the treasury stock method to determine the dilutiv

  27. Slide 27: AUM Rollforward

    27 Credit • AUM increased by 18% from Q2-22, primarily driven by commitments to U.S. direct lending funds, our sixth flagship European direct lending fund and our second flagship alternative credit fund Private Equity • AUM increased by 6% from Q2-22, primarily driven by commitments to ASOF II Real

  28. Slide 28: FPAUM Rollforward

    28 Credit • FPAUM increased by 19% from Q2-22, primarily driven by deployment within U.S. and European direct lending and alternative credit Private Equity • FPAUM increased by 7% from Q2-22, primarily driven by deployment within special opportunities Real Assets • FPAUM increased by 5% from Q2-22,

  29. Slide 29: AUM and FPAUM by Strategy

    29 AUM and FPAUM by Strategy 1. AUM includes ARCC, IHAM and Senior Direct Lending Program ("SDLP") AUM of $26.2 billion, $10.9 billion and $4.1 billion, respectively. ARCC’s wholly owned portfolio company, IHAM, an SEC- registered investment adviser, manages 22 vehicles and serves as the sub-manager

  30. Slide 30: Balance Sheet Investments by Strategy

    30 Balance Sheet Investments by Strategy(1) $ in millions June 30, 2023 December 31, 2022 Credit Liquid Credit(2) $121.3 $93.0 Alternative Credit 52.3 54.6 U.S. Direct Lending 81.6 111.9 European Direct Lending 40.3 33.4 Asia Credit 27.1 18.7 Credit $322.6 $311.6 Private Equity Corporate Private Equ

  31. Slide 31: Significant Fund Performance Metrics

    31 Significant Fund Performance Metrics The following table presents the performance data for the significant funds that are not drawdown funds: Note: Past performance is not indicative of future results. AUM and net returns are as of June 30, 2023 unless otherwise noted. The above table includes fu

  32. Slide 32: Significant Fund Performance Metrics (cont'd)

    32 Significant Fund Performance Metrics (cont’d) Note: Past performance is not indicative of future results. Fund performance metrics for significant funds may be marked as “NMˮ as they may not be considered meaningful due to the limited time since the initial investment and/or early stage of capita

  33. Slide 33: Significant Fund Performance Metrics (cont'd)

    33 Note: Past performance is not indicative of future results. Fund performance metrics for significant funds may be marked as “NMˮ as they may not be considered meaningful due to the limited time since the initial investment and/or early stage of capital deployment. AUM and net returns are as of Ju

  34. Slide 34: Significant Fund Performance Metrics Endnotes – Credit

    34 Credit 1. Since inception returns are annualized. 2. Returns are time-weighted rates of return and include the reinvestment of income and other earnings from securities or other investments and reflect the deduction of all trading expenses. Net returns are calculated using the fund’s NAV and assu

  35. Slide 35: Significant Fund Performance Metrics Endnotes – Private Equity

    35 Significant Fund Performance Metrics Endnotes (cont’d) Private Equity 1. Realized value represents the sum of all cash dividends, interest income, other fees and cash proceeds from realizations of interests in portfolio investments. Realized value excludes any proceeds related to bridge financing

  36. Slide 36: Significant Fund Performance Metrics Endnotes – Real Assets

    36 Real Assets 1. Since inception returns are annualized. 2. Performance is measured by total return, which includes income and appreciation and reinvestment of all distributions for the respective time period. Returns are shown for institutional share class. Shares of other classes may have lower r

  37. Slide 37: Significant Fund Performance Metrics Endnotes – Secondaries

    37 Significant Fund Performance Metrics Endnotes (cont’d) Secondaries 1. Realized value represents the sum of all cash distributions to all limited partners and if applicable, exclude tax and incentive distributions made to the general partner. 2. Unrealized value represents the limited partners’ sh

  38. Slide 38: Supplemental Performance Metrics

    38 Supplemental Performance Metrics The following table presents the performance data for a non-drawdown fund that was previously reported as a significant fund: Note: Past performance is not indicative of future results. AUM and net returns are as of June 30, 2023 unless otherwise noted. Please ref

  39. Slide 39: Supplemental Performance Metrics (cont'd)

    39 Supplemental Performance Metrics (cont'd) The following table presents the performance data for commingled funds that were previously reported as significant funds: As of June 30, 2023 Year of Inception Original Capital Commitments Capital Invested to Date Realized Value(1) Unrealized Value(2) To

  40. Slide 40: Supplemental Performance Metrics Endnotes – Credit

    40 Supplemental Performance Metrics Endnotes Credit 1. Since inception returns are annualized. 2. Returns are time-weighted rates of return and include the reinvestment of income and other earnings from securities or other investments and reflect the deduction of all trading expenses. Gross returns

  41. Slide 41: Supplemental Performance Metrics Endnotes – Private Equity

    41 Supplemental Performance Metrics Endnotes (cont’d) Private Equity (cont’d) 5. The gross IRR is an annualized since inception gross internal rate of return of cash flows to and from the fund and the fund’s residual value at the end of the measurement period. Gross IRRs reflect returns to the fee-p

  42. Slide 42: Supplemental Performance Metrics Endnotes – Secondaries

    42 Supplemental Performance Metrics Endnotes (cont’d) Secondaries 1. Realized value represents the sum of all cash distributions to all limited partners and if applicable, exclude tax and incentive distributions made to the general partner. 2. Unrealized value represents the limited partners' share

  43. Slide 43: Glossary

    43 Glossary ARCC Part II Fees ARCC Part II Fees refers to fees from Ares Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: ARCC) (“ARCCˮ) that are paid in arrears as of the end of each calendar year when the cumulative aggregate realized capital gains exceed the cumulative aggregate realized capital losses and aggregate

  44. Slide 44: Glossary (cont'd)

    44 Glossary (cont’d) Fee Paying AUM Fee Paying AUM or “FPAUMˮ refers to the AUM from which we directly earn management fees. FPAUM is equal to the sum of all the individual fee bases of our funds that directly contribute to our management fees. For our funds other than CLOs, our FPAUM represents the

  45. Slide 45: Glossary (cont'd)

    45 Glossary (cont’d) Net Inflows of Capital Net Inflows of Capital refers to net new commitments during the period, including equity and debt commitments and gross inflows into our open-ended managed accounts and sub-advised accounts, as well as new debt and equity issuances by our publicly-traded v

  46. Slide 46: Glossary (cont'd)

    46 Glossary (cont’d) Realized Income Realized Income or “RIˮ, a non-GAAP measure, is an operating metric used by management to evaluate performance of the business based on operating performance and the contribution of each of the business segments to that performance, while removing the fluctuation

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