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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001918712-25-000087"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001918712"
company_name: "ARES STRATEGIC INCOME FUND"
filed_at: "2025-10-21T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T03:05:34.923551+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ares Strategic Income Fund: Sep 30 NAV $27.58, aggregate NAV $10.2B; Oct distribution $0.2143/class I share

## Summary
- Unregistered sale of 9.5M Class I shares in October 2025, total consideration $259.9M.
- NAV per share flat at $27.58 for all classes; aggregate NAV $10.2B; portfolio fair value $19.6B; debt $8.9B; debt-to-equity 0.90x.
- Portfolio: 93% floating-rate debt; 832 companies; 82.7% first lien senior secured loans.
- October distribution $0.2143 gross/Class I share (net $0.2143); record Oct 31, pay Nov 21.
- Registered offering up to $15.0B; cumulative issued 384.7M shares for $10.5B.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001918712-25-000087
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001918712
- company_name: ARES STRATEGIC INCOME FUND
- filed_at: 2025-10-21T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.02, 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1918712/000191871225000087/0001918712-25-000087-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1918712/000191871225000087/asif-20251020.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001918712-25-000087.txt

## Key facts
- Equity Issuances
  ARES STRATEGIC INCOME FUND issued 9,524,376 shares of common stock for $259.9 million.
  - Security: common stock
  - Shares: 9,524,376 shares
  - Consideration: $259.9 million
  source text: During October 2025, Ares Strategic Income Fund (the “Fund”) sold Class I common shares of beneficial interest. The number of shares to be issued was finalized on October 20, 2025. The purchase price per Class I common share equaled the Fund’s net asset value (“NAV”) per Class I common share as of September 30, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1918712/000191871225000087/0001918712-25-000087-index.htm

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