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Overview
Overview
Ares Sports, Media and Entertainment Opportunities ("SME Opps") is a private fund that will make both debt and equity investments in global sports leagues, teams and sports-related companies, as well as media and entertainment opportunities.
SME Opps serves as a permanent and scalable capital solution to an undercapitalized market.
The SME Opps' team leverages its extensive experience, proprietary deal flow and flexible capital approach while remaining focused on identifying opportunities that provide strong relative value with diversified, down-side protected exposure to the SME ecosystem.
SME Opps is not available to members of the public, and no offering is being made or should be inferred.
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Portfolio At-A-Glance
As of October 31, 2025
Total Assets
$436.1mm
Core SME Assets 1
17
Forms
MAINTENANCE FORM
Use this form to change address, phone, email, name change, change or add interested party, go paperless, or update registered representative on your account
CERTIFICATION OF TRUST INVESTMENT POWER FORM
For use with trust account – Use this form to designate and authorize authority to transact on one or multiple trust accounts
SME OPPS ACCOUNT TRANSFER (RE-REGISTRATION) FORM
Use this form to re-register or transfer ownership of the account
SME OPPS DISTRIBUTION CHANGE FORM – BROKER/DEALER USE
For use with customers of broker dealers – Use this form to designate distribution proceeds to be paid in cash or reinvested; must be a validated user to view
Regulatory Filings
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Core SME assets represent a direct investment in a sports league or team, ancillary sports investment or a media and entertainment opportunity. Including assets that are a part of the strategy’s liquid sleeve, total number of investments in SME Opps is 77.
The information on this page is also available in SME Opps’ filings with the SEC and has been provided here by SME Opps solely for informational purposes. This page and its content do not constitute an offer to sell, or a solicitation of an offer to buy, securities.
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AccessAres is the thought-leadership and educational division of Ares Wealth Management Solutions. The materials distributed by AccessAres are for informational purposes only and do not constitute investment advice or a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any security, investment strategy or market sector. Ares Wealth Management Solutions is a global brand of Ares Management Corporation.