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Which funds own ARES

Ares Management Corporation in the Q2 2026 filings. At least 4 of the 91 current managers on file reported a position, worth $2.3bn between them. It is among the largest positions of fewer than a fifth of the current managers on file. The quarter went the other way: 6 managers trimmed or sold out against 1 buying.

Managers holding: 4; at least, of 91 current
Combined value: $2.3bn; as reported
Opened: 1; new this quarter
Added to: 0; already held
Trimmed or sold out: 6; 3 sold out entirely

Only each manager’s largest 200 positions are listed here, so a smaller holder may be missing.

Managers reporting a position

Largest first. Weight is the share of that manager’s whole reported book, which is the number worth quoting: $400m is a rounding error in one book and a defining bet in another.

Manager	Value	Weight	Shares	Change on the quarter	Action
Capital World Investors Long-only · $846bn book	$1.2bn	0.1%	10,644,025	-$101m-1,140,095	Trimmed
Wellington Management Group LLP Long-only · $580bn book	$1.1bn	0.2%	9,526,077	-$158m-1,636,725	Trimmed
Third Point LLC Activist · $4.7bn book	$42m	0.9%	375,000	opened375,000	New
Soros Fund Management LLC Macro · $8.1bn book	$6.0m	0.1%	54,026	-$15m-142,028	Trimmed

Sold out of this quarter

Valued at what the position was worth in the previous filing, because by this one it is gone.

Man Group PLC · Quantitative$7.6m held before
Bridgewater Associates LP · Macro$1.9m held before
Caxton Associates LLP · Macro$1.8m held before

Ownership through time

At least 9 of the 95 managers whose filings are on file listed ARES in Q2 2026, against 2 in Q4 2018. 4 managers fewer than in Q1 2026: 2 started positions; 1 listed it again; 7 no longer listed it among the positions read, which can mean a holding below the listed range, a filing that reported no holdings, or a filing not yet made.

Each manager’s largest 500 positions a quarter are read, so a small holding in a very large book can be missing, and a manager is counted as leaving only where its own filing shows it.

Managers on file listing it

Their combined reported value

Between the quarter ends of Q1 2026 and Q2 2026. Each change in shares is valued at the Q2 2026 price, so the price’s own move is left out; a 13F shows the two quarter ends, not when in between anything was bought or sold.

Started in Q2 2026

Third Point LLC$42m
Holocene Advisors LP$19m

Largest increases, by shares

Third Point LLCnew: 375,000 shares+$42m
Holocene Advisors LPnew: 169,164 shares+$19m

Largest decreases, by shares

MFS Investment Management3,846,219 to 2,166,904 shares-$187m
Wellington Management Group LLP11,162,802 to 9,526,077 shares-$182m
Capital World Investors11,784,120 to 10,644,025 shares-$127m
Janus Henderson Group Ltd1,653,078 to 1,473,100 shares-$20m
Soros Fund Management LLC196,054 to 54,026 shares-$16m

Left it

No manager on file is shown leaving it.

Manager	First listed	Largest	Q2 2026
Capital World Investors	Q4 2018	$2.0bn	$1.2bn
Wellington Management Group LLP	Q1 2020	$2.7bn	$1.1bn
MFS Investment Management	Q1 2024	$922m	$241m
T. Rowe Price Associates Inc	Q1 2023	$1.2bn	$217m
Janus Henderson Group Ltd	Q4 2023	$186m	$164m
Third Point LLC	Q2 2026	$42m	$42m
Holocene Advisors LP	Q2 2020	$39m	$19m
Schonfeld Strategic Advisors LLC	Q3 2022	$45m	$15m
Soros Fund Management LLC	Q1 2022	$21m	$6.0m
Fidelity (FMR LLC)	Q2 2023	$1.4bn	last listed Q4 2025
Invesco Ltd	Q1 2020	$473m	last listed Q1 2025
Lone Pine Capital LLC	Q2 2024	$320m	last listed Q1 2025
Millennium Management LLC	Q1 2021	$270m	last listed Q1 2026
Citadel Advisors LLC	Q1 2026	$227m	last listed Q1 2026
AllianceBernstein LP	Q2 2019	$173m	last listed Q4 2023
Marshall Wace LLP	Q1 2025	$146m	last listed Q3 2025
Point72 Asset Management LP	Q4 2018	$141m	last listed Q1 2026
Artisan Partners LP	Q3 2024	$135m	last listed Q4 2025
Balyasny Asset Management LLC	Q2 2021	$100m	last listed Q4 2025

What ARES is worth

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How much of the picture this is

A Form 13F reports US-listed long equity and nothing else: no shorts, no bonds, no cash and no non-US listings. It arrives forty-five days after the quarter ends, so a manager who sold in July still shows the position in a filing published in August. This page reads the managers on file here rather than every filer in the market, and each manager’s largest positions rather than the whole table, so a small position in a very large book may not appear. Say “their last filing showed” rather than “they own”, and the distinction will do you credit.

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