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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001918712-25-000098"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: null
cik: "0001918712"
company_name: "ARES STRATEGIC INCOME FUND"
filed_at: "2025-11-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T18:33:48.809103+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Ares Strategic Income Fund sells 6.07M Class I shares at $27.55 NAV for $167.3M

## Summary
- Sold 6,072,200 Class I shares in private placement at Oct 31 NAV of $27.55, total consideration $167.3M.
- Aggregate NAV at Oct 31: $10.6B; portfolio fair value $20.9B; debt $9.3B; debt-to-equity 0.91x.
- Monthly gross distribution of $0.21430 per share declared for Nov 2025 (payable Dec 24) and for Dec 2025–Mar 2026.
- Portfolio at Oct 31: 93% floating rate; 82.9% first lien senior secured loans; 867 portfolio companies.
- Ongoing registered offering up to $15B; total $10.8B raised across all classes to date.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001918712-25-000098
- form_type: 8-K
- cik: 0001918712
- company_name: ARES STRATEGIC INCOME FUND
- filed_at: 2025-11-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 3.02, 8.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1918712/000191871225000098/0001918712-25-000098-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1918712/000191871225000098/asif-20251119.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001918712-25-000098
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001918712-25-000098.txt

## Key facts
- Equity Issuances
  ARES STRATEGIC INCOME FUND issued 6,072,200 of common stock for $167.3.
  - Security: common stock
  - Shares: 6,072,200
  - Consideration: $167.3
  source text: Sales (dollar amount in millions) Amount of Class I Common Shares Total Consideration During November 2025 (number of shares finalized on November 19, 2025) 6,072,200 $ 167.3
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1918712/000191871225000098/0001918712-25-000098-index.htm

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