---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-25-074726"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001918712"
company_name: "ARES STRATEGIC INCOME FUND"
filed_at: "2025-08-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T20:00:49.447407+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ares Strategic Income Fund amends SG Funding Facility: maturity extended, rates lowered, capacity to $2.5B

## Summary
- Reinvestment period extended to Aug 1, 2028 (from Aug 28, 2027); maturity extended to Aug 1, 2030 (from Aug 28, 2029).
- Interest rate margin reduced: term loans to 1.85% (was 2.05%), revolving loans to 1.90% (was 2.05%).
- Accordion feature increased from $2.0B to $2.5B, allowing larger borrowing capacity under certain conditions.
- Borrowings remain subject to existing covenants and leverage restrictions under the Investment Company Act of 1940.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-25-074726
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001918712
- company_name: ARES STRATEGIC INCOME FUND
- filed_at: 2025-08-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1918712/000110465925074726/0001104659-25-074726-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1918712/000110465925074726/tm2522562d1_8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-25-074726.txt

## Key facts
- Debt Financings
  ARES STRATEGIC INCOME FUND amended credit facility of maximum of $2.5 billion with Société Générale at an applicable margin of (i) with respect to term loans under the SG Funding Faci maturing August 1, 2030.
  - Instrument: credit facility
  - Principal: maximum of $2.5 billion
  - Counterparty: Société Générale
  - Rate: an applicable margin of (i) with respect to term loans under the SG Funding Faci
  - Maturity: August 1, 2030
  - Event: amendment
  source text: The SG Funding Facility Amendment, among other things, (a) extended the reinvestment period for the SG Funding Facility from August 28, 2027 to August 1, 2028; (b) extended the stated maturity date for the SG Funding Facility from August 28, 2029 to August 1, 2030; (c) adjusted the interest rate charged on the SG Funding Facility from an applicable margin of 2.05% per annum to an applicable margin of (i) with respect to term loans under the SG Funding Facility, 1.85% per annum, and (ii) with respect to revolving loans under the SG Funding Facility, 1.90% per annum, plus, in each case, an applicable benchmark (Term SOFR, Daily Simple SONIA, EURIBOR or CORRA); and (d) increased the “accordion” feature that allows the Borrower, under certain circumstances, to increase the overall size of the SG Funding Facility from a maximum of $2.0 billion to a maximum of $2.5 billion.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1918712/000110465925074726/0001104659-25-074726-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.