COHEN & STEERS, INC.
Cohen & Steers, Inc. (NYSE: CNS) is a global investment manager specializing in real assets and alternative income strategies. Founded in 1986 and headquartered in New York City with international offices in London, Dublin, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Singapore, the firm serves institutional and individual investors… From the company’s description.
Margins and return on equity change in ; everything else in percent. Fewer shares and less debt are shown plainly, not as bad news — it depends what you make of buybacks. Dotted labels explain each measure. is shown separately from the annual figures.
What COHEN & STEERS, INC. does
In the company’s own words
Cohen & Steers, Inc. (NYSE: CNS) is a global investment manager specializing in real assets and alternative income strategies. Founded in 1986 and headquartered in New York City with international offices in London, Dublin, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Singapore, the firm serves institutional and individual investors worldwide through two primary distribution channels: wealth management and institutional accounts.
The company manages three types of investment vehicles: open-end funds, institutional accounts, and closed-end funds. Its core investment strategies encompass listed real estate securities, private real estate, preferred securities including low-duration variants, global listed infrastructure, global natural resource equities, and real assets multi-strategy portfolios. As of December 31, 2025, approximately 63.8 percent of assets under management were concentrated in real estate securities strategies, while approximately 20.0 percent were allocated to preferred securities strategies. The firm also offers active exchange-traded funds, having launched three strategies in 2025 and two additional strategies in December 2025.
Cohen & Steers operates through several subsidiaries including Cohen & Steers Capital Management, Inc., a registered investment adviser with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and Cohen & Steers Securities, LLC, a registered broker-dealer. International subsidiaries are regulated by authorities in their respective jurisdictions including the Financial Conduct Authority in the United Kingdom and the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong.
The company employs 424 full-time employees as of December 31, 2025, including 88 investment professionals. Women represent 37 percent of the firmwide workforce, and people of color represent 33 percent of the U.S. workforce. The firm has been recognized for six consecutive years as a "Best Place to Work in Money Management" by Pensions & Investments.
Cohen & Steers maintains a $100 million senior unsecured revolving credit facility maturing in August 2029. The company's website is www.cohenandsteers.com, where investors can access annual reports, quarterly filings, and other regulatory documents filed with the SEC.
Company details
- Sector
- Financials
- Industry
- Banks & Brokers
- Headquarters
- NEW YORK, NY
- Fiscal year end
- December
- CIK
- 1284812
- SIC
- 6282
Financial performance, year by year
Fiscal 2013–2025 · USDThe full income statement, balance sheet and cash flow for each of these years — every figure traceable to its filing — is on the Financials tab with a free account.
Who owns COHEN & STEERS, INC. — and what changed
Funds as of 2026Q2 · superinvestors as of 2026-06-30
Largest fund holders · COHEN & STEERS, INC.’s weight in each
Fund ownership is a floor, not a census — pensions, insurers and people holding shares directly are not visible here.
Fund ownership counts N-PORT filers only, so it is a floor rather than a census — pensions, insurers and direct holders are not visible here, and the remainder is not “held by individuals”.
Every fund and institutional holder, quarter by quarter, is on the Ownership tab with a free account.
Recent filings
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