Thoughts on Ares Alternative Credit
Does anyone have insights on the Alternative Credit group at Ares? Junior comp / strategy / culture / working hours / general thoughts / etc.
Have been seeing some job postings recently on LinkedIn, I'm currently at a BB and looking to move into the opportunistic credit and/or special sits space.
Looks like they have a pretty broad mandate across the cap structure - contractual / asset based financing, specialty finance, lender finance, leasing, etc. AuM seems to have grown a ton recently.
Would appreciate any thoughts of how they compare to other special sits / opportunistic credit strategies and what are the other most similar groups out there. Is the skillset pigeonholed or does one have the flexibility to later move to distressed / special sits / PE?