Ares as Debt Investment

Chidem Kurdas

Ares Management is a Los Angeles-based debt specialist and private equity firm with $40 billion in assets that runs a Nasdaq-listed business development company in addition to private funds and accounts.

Short Seller’s Vindication; SEC Scandal

Chidem Kurdas

There is a frightening implication in the government’s settlement of fraud charges against a small-business lender called Business Loan Center and another business, both of which owned by Allied Capital, a business development company.