Ares Management, a global alternative investment manager, launched Ares Core Infrastructure Fund (AUT), an Australian-domiciled unit trust designed to provide wholesale and advised retail clients in Australia access to Ares Core Infrastructure Fund (ACI), a U.S.-regulated business development company and private infrastructure investment solution that seeks to generate attractive risk-adjusted returns.
“As private markets continue to demonstrate resilience through dynamic environments, we are seeing growing interest from wealth investors in Australia and New Zealand for deeper access and greater diversification across asset classes,” Teiki Benveniste, managing director and head of Ares Wealth Management Solutions Australia and New Zealand, said. “Ares is excited to further expand our offering of institutional-grade solutions for individuals and capitalize on the accelerating opportunity in private infrastructure. We look forward to supporting investors’ long-term financial goals and unlocking sustainable value.”
“We believe the exponential rise in global demand for data and the corresponding need for energy has created an unprecedented market opportunity across the digital and power infrastructure sectors,” Keith Derman, co-CEO of ACI and co-head of Ares’ Infrastructure Opportunities strategy, said. “With stable, cash-flow-generating assets that have typically demonstrated cyclical resilience, private infrastructure can provide investors uncorrelated and inflation-hedged risk-adjusted returns. We believe Ares is well-positioned to leverage our Infrastructure platform’s differentiated origination, asset selection and transaction structuring capabilities to deliver an attractive offering for investors to further enhance their portfolios.”
This marks Ares’ fourth wealth offering in Australia and New Zealand following the December 2024 introduction of Ares Private Markets Fund.
