{"id":92118,"date":"2026-10-02T06:06:36","date_gmt":"2026-10-02T10:06:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2026\/ares-closed-its-inaugural-global-structured-solutions-fund-at-about-4-2-billion.html"},"modified":"2026-10-02T06:06:36","modified_gmt":"2026-10-02T10:06:36","slug":"ares-closed-its-inaugural-global-structured-solutions-fund-at-about-4-2-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2026\/ares-closed-its-inaugural-global-structured-solutions-fund-at-about-4-2-billion.html","title":{"rendered":"Ares Closed Its Inaugural Global Structured Solutions Fund at About $4.2 Billion:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/2026-10-02-ares-hero.jpg\" alt=\"Ares Closed Its Inaugural Global Structured Solutions Fund at About $4.2 Billion\" \/><\/p>\n<p>HedgeCo.Net \u2014 Ares Management said it raised approximately $4.2 billion for its inaugural Ares Global Structured Solutions Fund (AGSS) and affiliated vehicles, significantly exceeding a $1 billion target. The vehicle sits inside Ares Private Equity Secondaries and is designed to provide flexible capital to private managers for GP fund commitments, structured LP commitments that seed new strategies, and succession planning. Ares said its funds have deployed nearly $9 billion across structured solutions transactions since 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Blair Jacobson, Co-President of Ares, said the close reflects rising demand for tailored GP solutions and the Secondaries platform\u2019s role as a partner to leading managers. Nate Walton, Head of Private Equity Secondaries, said the dedicated pool strengthens Ares\u2019 ability to act as a scaled partner across structured solutions, continuation vehicles, and GP stakes. The Ares Secondaries Group managed $44 billion of assets as of June 30, 2026, according to the firm, across private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and credit secondaries.<\/p>\n<p>The fundraising print is large relative to the stated $1 billion target and arrives as GP-led and structured capital continue to absorb a larger share of secondaries dry powder. StreetInsider and Alternatives Watch both carried the $4.2 billion close. Ares Management\u2019s broader platform had over $671 billion of AUM as of June 30, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>For LPs evaluating secondaries sleeves, AGSS is a GP-solutions book rather than a classic LP-led portfolio sale fund. Underwriting should separate expected GP commitment \/ preferred equity economics from traditional discount-to-NAV LP secondary returns, and ask how deployment pacing interacts with the nearly $9 billion of prior structured solutions experience the firm cites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HedgeCo.Net \u2014 Ares Management said it raised approximately $4.2 billion for its inaugural Ares Global Structured Solutions Fund (AGSS) and affiliated vehicles, significantly exceed\u2026 <a class=\"continue_reading_link btn btn-mini\" href=\"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/10\/2026\/ares-closed-its-inaugural-global-structured-solutions-fund-at-about-4-2-billion.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":92117,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-private-equity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92118\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}