There is a long list of 544 institutional holders of ARES within the last two holding periods in our database of 13F filers, so we've sorted through to present to you just the top 50 institutional holders of ARES by largest to smallest position reported in the institutional investor's latest 13F filing. In the institutional-holders-of-ARES table below, the initial column indicates the name of each top institutional holder of ARES, with a link to that fund's top holdings. The next columns indicate the amount of ARES stock held by each of the institutional holders of ARES, followed by the ARES position size held by the institution, and finally the date of the quarterly 13F filing period the holdings data represents for that institution.

Holder	Amount	Position Size ($ in 1000's)	As of
Vanguard Group Inc.	16,392,349	$1,949,378	12/31/2023
ARES	16,392,349	$1,949,378	12/31/2023
Wellington Management Group LLP	15,858,108	$1,885,846	12/31/2023
ARES	15,858,108	$1,885,846	12/31/2023
Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc.	13,364,740	$1,589,335	12/31/2023
ARES	13,364,740	$1,589,335	12/31/2023
BlackRock Inc.	11,835,993	$1,407,536	12/31/2023
ARES	11,835,993	$1,407,536	12/31/2023
Capital World Investors	11,075,711	$1,317,124	12/31/2023
ARES	11,075,711	$1,317,124	12/31/2023
FMR LLC	6,963,776	$828,132	12/31/2023
ARES	6,963,776	$828,132	12/31/2023
Capital International Investors	5,569,707	$662,350	12/31/2023
ARES	5,569,707	$662,350	12/31/2023
Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD	4,113,862	$489,222	12/31/2023
ARES	4,113,862	$489,222	12/31/2023
Franklin Resources Inc.	3,872,559	$460,525	12/31/2023
ARES	3,872,559	$460,525	12/31/2023
JPMorgan Chase & Co.	3,566,765	$424,160	12/31/2023
ARES	3,566,765	$424,160	12/31/2023
State Street Corp	3,339,446	$397,127	12/31/2023
ARES	3,339,446	$397,127	12/31/2023
Boston Partners	2,905,729	$345,538	12/31/2023
ARES	2,905,729	$345,538	12/31/2023
Bank of America Corp DE	2,560,815	$304,532	12/31/2023
ARES	2,560,815	$304,532	12/31/2023
Geode Capital Management LLC	2,472,177	$293,490	12/31/2023
ARES	2,472,177	$293,490	12/31/2023
American Century Companies Inc.	1,898,404	$225,758	12/31/2023
ARES	1,898,404	$225,758	12/31/2023
CIBC Private Wealth Group LLC	1,898,392	$225,757	12/31/2023
ARES	1,898,392	$225,757	12/31/2023
Bank of New York Mellon Corp	1,627,441	$216,417	03/31/2024
ARES	1,627,441	$216,417	03/31/2024
HMI Capital LLC	1,804,897	$214,638	12/31/2023
ARES	1,804,897	$214,638	12/31/2023
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board	1,783,064	$212,042	12/31/2023
ARES	1,783,064	$212,042	12/31/2023
Norges Bank	1,728,040	$205,499	12/31/2023
ARES	1,728,040	$205,499	12/31/2023
Morgan Stanley	1,680,993	$199,904	12/31/2023
ARES	1,680,993	$199,904	12/31/2023
Invesco Ltd.	1,639,560	$194,976	12/31/2023
ARES	1,639,560	$194,976	12/31/2023
Principal Financial Group Inc.	1,567,952	$186,461	12/31/2023
ARES	1,567,952	$186,461	12/31/2023
Vulcan Value Partners LLC	1,551,992	$184,273	12/31/2023
ARES	1,551,992	$184,273	12/31/2023
Hamlin Capital Management LLC	1,331,516	$158,344	12/31/2023
ARES	1,331,516	$158,344	12/31/2023
Nuveen Asset Management LLC	1,283,353	$152,616	12/31/2023
ARES	1,283,353	$152,616	12/31/2023
CI Private Wealth LLC	1,253,644	$149,083	12/31/2023
ARES	1,253,644	$149,083	12/31/2023
Envestnet Asset Management Inc.	1,025,765	$121,984	12/31/2023
ARES	1,025,765	$121,984	12/31/2023
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.	973,201	$115,733	12/31/2023
ARES	973,201	$115,733	12/31/2023
Peregrine Capital Management LLC	839,034	$111,575	03/31/2024
ARES	839,034	$111,575	03/31/2024
Keystone Investors PTE Ltd.	934,360	$111,114	12/31/2023
ARES	934,360	$111,114	12/31/2023
Alliancebernstein L.P.	875,991	$104,173	12/31/2023
ARES	875,991	$104,173	12/31/2023
Northern Trust Corp	860,944	$102,383	12/31/2023
ARES	860,944	$102,383	12/31/2023
Perpetual Ltd	634,879	$84,426	03/31/2024
ARES	634,879	$84,426	03/31/2024
Janus Henderson Group PLC	699,773	$83,217	12/31/2023
ARES	699,773	$83,217	12/31/2023
Legal & General Group Plc	665,223	$79,108	12/31/2023
ARES	665,223	$79,108	12/31/2023
Quilter Plc	658,670	$78,961	12/31/2023
ARES	658,670	$78,961	12/31/2023
Westfield Capital Management Co. LP	659,029	$78,372	12/31/2023
ARES	659,029	$78,372	12/31/2023
Truist Financial Corp	645,458	$76,758	12/31/2023
ARES	645,458	$76,758	12/31/2023
Federated Hermes Inc.	625,000	$74,325	12/31/2023
ARES	625,000	$74,325	12/31/2023
Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc.	608,124	$72,318	12/31/2023
ARES	608,124	$72,318	12/31/2023
Lord Abbett & CO. LLC	569,974	$67,781	12/31/2023
ARES	569,974	$67,781	12/31/2023
Junto Capital Management LP	534,059	$63,510	12/31/2023
ARES	534,059	$63,510	12/31/2023
Neuberger Berman Group LLC	509,280	$60,564	12/31/2023
ARES	509,280	$60,564	12/31/2023
1832 Asset Management L.P.	506,707	$60,258	12/31/2023
ARES	506,707	$60,258	12/31/2023
Fiera Capital Corp	492,867	$58,612	12/31/2023
ARES	492,867	$58,612	12/31/2023
Barclays PLC	445,107	$52,933	12/31/2023
ARES	445,107	$52,933	12/31/2023
Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc.	397,285	$52,831	03/31/2024
ARES	397,285	$52,831	03/31/2024
UBS Asset Management Americas Inc.	433,157	$51,511	12/31/2023
ARES	433,157	$51,511	12/31/2023
FIL Ltd	424,166	$50,442	12/31/2023
ARES	424,166	$50,442	12/31/2023