Cohen & Steers Inc (CNS) Financial

Cohen & Steers, Inc. is a holding company, which operates as an investment manager specializing in liquid real assets, which include real estate securities, listed infrastructure, commodities, natural resource equities, preferred securities, and other income solutions. The company is headquartered in New York City, New York and currently employs 424 full-time employees. The company went IPO on 2004-08-13. The firm is specialized in real assets and alternative income, including listed and private real estate, preferred securities, infrastructure, resource equities, commodities, as well as multi-strategy solutions. The Company’s distribution network encompasses two channels, wealth and institutional. Its wealth channel includes registered investment advisers, wire houses, independent and regional broker dealers and bank trusts. Its institutional channel includes sovereign wealth funds, corporate plans, insurance companies and public funds, including defined benefit and defined contribution plans, as well as other financial institutions that access its investment management services directly or through consultants and other intermediaries. The firm manages three types of investment vehicles, such as open-end funds, institutional accounts, and closed end.