Of 60 answers

The most named companies in the study, and S&P 500 financials, with how many of their 60 AI answers named them.

SWIFT47/60TRANSUNION46/60EXPERIAN42/60COINSTAR41/60NAVY FEDERAL CREDIT UNION41/60ZELLE41/60BLOOMBERG L.P.38/60TRADINGVIEW38/60BANCO POPULAR DE PUERTO RICO37/60PAYPAL37/60VENMO37/60CHEXSYSTEMS33/60EQUIFAX33/60MORNINGSTAR32/60S&P GLOBAL31/60ALPACA MARKETS30/60COINBASE30/60PINWHEEL29/60STRIPE29/60XERO29/60ACORNS28/60AFFIRM28/60PAYFAST (PAYGATE)28/60PAYONEER28/60INTERACTIVE BROKERS26/60CHARLES SCHWAB19/60THE HARTFORD9/60MOODY'S21/60CME GROUP19/60ACCENTURE11/60CHUBB10/60MORGAN STANLEY6/60AMERICAN EXPRESS14/60SYNCHRONY FINANCIAL12/60FACTSET20/60NASDAQ19/60ALLSTATE11/60WELLS FARGO18/60PAYCHEX10/60ARES MANAGEMENT3/60
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AI visibility statementFinance AI Visibility Study 2026Issued October 14, 2026
Account holder

Ares Management

aresmgmt.comARCC, ARES

Private equity and alternative investmentsInvesting and wealth

Money20/20 attendeeS&P 500

Also in the US AI Visibility Study

Statement period
September 23, 2026
when the AI assistants were asked
Account no.
345 of 2,219
its rank by overall score
Place in its category
5th of 74 private equity firms
Closing balance

Named in

3of 60 answers

by 3 of 4 assistants

Statement note

What this means for Ares Management

AI assistants name this private equity firm in 5% of answers, which is higher than the typical company in its sector at 0.8%. Its overall score is 39 out of 100, ranking 345th of 2,219 companies studied and 29th of 238 in its sector. The website passes 3 of 14 technical checks measuring how ready it is for AI tools.

We asked 15 unbranded questions about its market, so no question mentioned Ares Management by name. AI assistants named it in 3 of the 60 answers. Counting only how often it is named, it ranks 58th of 238 in its sector. The typical investing and wealth company is named in 0.8% of answers.

Overall score
39Overall score
  • Visibility8
  • Citations0
  • Sentiment100
  • Site quality80
  • AI readiness36
Summary of account
Named by AI in
5.0%
3 of 60 answers
Share of mentions
16.7%
of the mentions of it and its 5 peers
AI readiness
3/14
technical checks passed. Typical for its sector: 4
Rank in its sector
29 of 238
by overall score, where the typical investing and wealth company scores 28

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Line itemsSection 01

Every question, and where the company came up

Ares Management came up on 1 of 15 questions. Open any window to read that answer.

  1. 01What are the best alternative investment management firms for institutional investors in the US?3/4
  2. 02Real estate debt strategies compared to direct real estate investment—pros and cons for US investors?0/4
  3. 03How can institutional investors assess risk in alternative investment fund documentation?0/4
  4. 04What are the average minimum investment requirements for US-based alternative asset managers?0/4
  5. 05How are management fees typically structured in alternative investment funds?0/4
  6. 06How do leading alternative asset managers approach portfolio diversification for financial advisors?0/4
  7. 07Is it worth adding alternative asset solutions to a high-net-worth client portfolio?0/4
  8. 08What should financial advisors consider before recommending alternative investments to investors?0/4
  9. 09How might alternative investments help diversify a traditional 60/40 portfolio?0/4
  10. 10What are common challenges when onboarding with a new alternative asset manager?0/4
  11. 11Private equity vs private credit: What are the key differences for institutional portfolios?0/4
  12. 12Which investment approaches can serve as alternatives to private equity funds?0/4
  13. 13What are effective alternatives to traditional fixed income for institutional portfolios?0/4
  14. 14What role do private market strategies play in long-term endowment fund management?0/4
  15. 15What solutions do alternative investment management firms offer for sophisticated individual investors in the US?0/4
Total namedOpenAI: 1/15Claude: 1/15Perplexity: 0/15Gemini: 1/15All assistants: 3/60
named the companyanswered without naming itdid not answer

Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. Across the study, on 50% of the questions where a company is named, only one AI assistant names it.

Transaction detailSection 02

What Claude actually said

An answer that names the company

Claudenamed the company

“What are the best alternative investment management firms for institutional investors in the US?”

… Ares Management has been in the investment business since 1997 and seeks to generate consistent returns in all market conditions.

Specialized Alternative Platforms

Invesco has one of the industry's largest and most diverse alternative investment platforms, providing institutional investors access to differentiated strategies across real estate, private equity, private credit, risk parity, and hedge, macro, and commodity strategies.

Oaktree Capital Management operates an alternative asset management firm focused on credit strategies, real assets, and investment solutions for institution …

The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.

PayeesSection 03

Where the mentions went

The companies these answers named, and how the mentions were split between this company and its peers.

Also named

CompanyTimes named
  1. 01
    Blackstone
    3
  2. 02
    Apollo Global Management
    3
  3. 03
    Brookfield Asset Management
    3

Share of mentions

CompanyShare
  1. KKR & Co. Inc.
    22.2%
  2. Ares Management
    16.7%
  3. Blackstone
    16.7%
  4. Apollo Global Management
    16.7%
  5. Brookfield Asset Management
    16.7%
  6. Carlyle
    11.1%
ReferrersSection 04

Websites the AI used as sources

How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers

  1. 01
    am.jpmorgan.com
    30
  2. 02
    institutional.fidelity.com
    19
  3. 03
    blackrock.com
    18
  4. 04
    morganstanley.com
    14
  5. 05
    privatebank.jpmorgan.com
    11
  6. 06
    morningstar.com
    10
  7. 07
    ubs.com
    10
  8. 08
    pwm.gs.com
    8
  9. 09
    invesco.com
    8
  10. 10
    alliancebernstein.com
    7

Ares Management is in the study as a private equity firm.

By assistantSection 05

Which AI assistants named the company

Answers naming it, out of answers received

Gemini
1/15
Claude
1/15
OpenAI
1/15
Perplexity
0/15
Market comparisonSection 06

How Ares Management compares with all 2,219 companies

Every tower is a company in the study, taller for a higher overall score and lit where AI assistants named it. Its own group stays lit. Hover a tower to see it, and click to open it.

What makes up the score

Each part is scored out of 100.

Visibility
8

How often AI assistants name the company, and how that compares with its peers

Citations
0

How often AI uses the company's own website as a source

Sentiment
100

How positively AI describes the company

Site quality
80

How well built the website's own pages are

AI readiness
36

How easily AI tools can read and use the website

Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.

Against its sectorSection 07

Compared with investing and wealth companies

238 companies in this sector. The gold tick on each bar is the typical company.

Overall score
39
Ranks 29 of 238. Typical company: 28
Named in answers
5.0%
Ranks 58 of 238. Typical company: 0.8%
AI readiness
36
Ranks 15 of 238. Typical company: 29
Against its categorySection 08

Compared with private equity firms

74 companies in this category. The gold tick on each bar is the typical company.

Overall score
39
Ranks 3 of 74. Typical company: 27
Named in answers
5.0%
Ranks 9 of 74. Typical company: 0.0%
AI readiness
36
Ranks 6 of 74. Typical company: 29
AI agentsSection 09

Ready for AI agents

What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and pay through, on a scale of six levels.

  1. 0
  2. 1
  3. 2
  4. 3
  5. 4
  6. 5

Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.

To reach level 2:
  • Content Signals

The website turns away requests that do not come from a browser. AI agents that say what they are meet the same refusal.

Can an AI agent check out here?

Not by itself. Ares Management publishes none of the agent payment protocols we look for. An agent would have to click through the website like a person.

Agent payment protocols
  • x402Not present
  • MPPNot present
  • AP2Not present
  • ACPNot present
  • UCPNot present
Interfaces for AI agents
  • MCP Server CardNot present
  • A2A Agent CardNot present
  • Agent SkillsNot present
  • API CatalogNot present
  • llms.txtNot present
  • WebMCPNot present
Show every check, for your technical team
Discoverability
80 of 100
  • robots.txtPassed

    A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.

    study: 86.1%
  • SitemapPassed

    An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.

    study: 87.9%
  • Link headersNot met

    Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.

    study: 1.5%
  • DNS for AI DiscoveryPassed

    SVCB or HTTPS records under _agents that advertise agent endpoints.

    study: 4.3%
Content accessibility
0 of 100
  • Markdown negotiationNot met

    Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.

    study: 6.2%
  • llms.txtNot met

    Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.

    study: 31.0%
Bot access control
32 of 100
  • AI bot rulesPartly met

    Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.

    study: 92.7%
  • Content SignalsNot met

    Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.

    study: 2.3%
  • Web Bot AuthNot present

    Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.

    study: 0.3%
APIs, auth and MCP
0 of 100
  • API CatalogNot met

    List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.

    study: 1.3%
  • OAuth discoveryNot met

    Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.

    study: 6.3%
  • OAuth Protected ResourceNot met

    Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.

    study: 5.3%
  • auth.mdNot met

    Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.

    study: 0.2%
  • MCP Server CardNot met

    Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.

    study: 0.8%
  • A2A Agent CardNot met

    Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.

    study: 0.2%
  • Agent SkillsNot met

    Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.

    study: 1.0%
  • WebMCPNot met

    Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.

    study: 0.0%
  • ARD manifestNot met

    Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.

    study: 0.2%

Score 27 of 100 · 100% of checks could run · checked on October 3, 2026 · aresmgmt.com · 2,200 companies scanned

See how every company did, and how this was measured.

AI readinessSection 10

The checks behind the AI readiness score

3 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.

These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.

Show the 14 checks

Discoverability

  • Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.1%
  • PassedXML sitemapstudy: 79.4%
  • Not metHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 42.5%

Content Accessibility

  • Not metMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 7.4%
  • Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 28.1%
  • PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 97.3%

Bot Access Control

  • Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 11.5%

API / Auth / MCP

  • Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 1.1%
  • Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 5.2%
  • Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 4.6%
  • Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.2%
  • Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
  • Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 0.3%
  • Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.1%
AI crawlersSection 11

What AI crawlers may read (robots.txt)

This website sets no rules for any AI crawler by name, like 86% of the websites whose rules we could read. Every AI crawler follows its general rules.

Training AI

  • GPTBotpartly
  • ClaudeBotpartly
  • Anthropic-AIpartly
  • Google-Extendedpartly
  • Applebot-Extendedpartly
  • Meta-ExternalAgentpartly
  • FacebookBotpartly
  • Bytespiderpartly
  • CCBotpartly
  • Diffbotpartly
  • Omgilibotpartly

AI search

  • OAI-SearchBotpartly
  • Claude-SearchBotpartly
  • PerplexityBotpartly
  • Applebotpartly
  • Amazonbotpartly
  • YouBotpartly

Answering questions

  • ChatGPT-Userpartly
  • Claude-Userpartly
  • Perplexity-Userpartly
  • DuckAssistBotpartly
  • MistralAI-Userpartly

Read from the website’s own rules file (robots.txt). An asterisk marks a crawler the file names. The rest follow its general rules. “Partly” means only some pages are blocked.

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