ORGANIZATION AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION (Details)	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2016 entity segment	Dec. 31, 2015
Organization and Basis of Presentation [Line Items]
Number of investing groups \| segment	3
Ownership percentage		56.27%
Ares Holdings, Inc. and Ares Investments LLC
Organization and Basis of Presentation [Line Items]
Number of affiliated entities results included in accompanying combined and consolidated financial statements \| entity	2
APMC \| AHI
Organization and Basis of Presentation [Line Items]
Ownership percentage	50.10%
APMC \| AI
Organization and Basis of Presentation [Line Items]
Ownership percentage	70.30%

Number of operating segments. An operating segment is a component of an enterprise: (a) that engages in business activities from which it may earn revenues and incur expenses (including revenues and expenses relating to transactions with other components of the same enterprise), (b) whose operating results are regularly reviewed by the enterprise's chief operating decision maker to make decisions about resources to be allocated to the segment and assess its performance, and (c) for which discrete financial information is available. An operating segment may engage in business activities for which it has yet to earn revenues, for example, start-up operations may be operating segments before earning revenues.

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