Global Real Estate Securities
This strategy offers our broadest real estate portfolio, providing an efficient means of allocating globally listed real estate.
WHY COHEN & STEERS
One of the largest, most experienced REIT specialist teams delivers extensive analysis
Direct access to management teams and industry participants is leveraged into value-added investment decisions
One of the first asset managers dedicated to REITs
WHY REITS
Strong historical returns
Since the start of the modern REIT era in 1991, listed real estate has delivered strong absolute and relative returns compared to stocks and bonds
Attractive income and growth potential
REITs tend to pay attractive dividends, offering an alternative source of income
Access to a diverse and growing global market
The global listed REIT market has evolved substantially over the past decades, providing access to new property types and new markets
Market inefficiencies
In pricing real estate fundamentals, market inefficiencies can be exploited through specialized knowledge and comprehensive analysis
Cohen & Steers Global Real Estate Securities invests in a diversified portfolio of REITs and other publicly traded real estate companies around the world. Our strategy offers an effective way to capitalize on the growing securitization of real estate and the historically beneficial investment characteristics of large-scale income-producing properties. With it, we seek to maximize total return with a balance of capital appreciation and current income.
With 22 professionals on its global real estate investment team, Cohen & Steers employs one of the largest and most experienced groups dedicated to global real estate securities, providing competitive market coverage and access to information on listed property investments. We have portfolio managers, research analysts and traders located in key markets, including New York, London and Hong Kong. Our 8 portfolio managers have an average of 22 years of investment experience and have been with the firm for an average of 13 years.
WHY INVEST WITH US
Delivering value to our clients
Cohen & Steers has been at the forefront of real estate investing for more than 35 years. As the first investment advisor to focus on real estate securities, with a longstanding commitment to the asset class, our top priority is to deliver strong investment performance through our industry-leading real estate securities platform. Our dedication, combined with our drive for excellence, has led to us to build a foundation that is designed to provide sustainable outperformance relative to our peers.
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An experienced team
Vice President, Portfolio Manager, European Real Estate
18 years of experience
+12 analysts and associates
PORTFOLIO SPECIALIST GROUP
Supporting our investment team and clients
We believe publicly traded real estate securities are an attractive way to allocate to real estate. The philosophy that guides our real estate strategies is based on the following principles:
Market inefficiencies may create opportunities
Equity markets tend to be inherently inefficient at pricing real estate fundamentals. Active managers can capitalize on inefficiencies through stock selection by identifying material dislocations between share prices and fundamentals.
Research can deliver a sustainable advantage
As listed real estate specialists, we are highly attuned to changes in property fundamentals, allowing us to trade on information earlier and faster than generalist managers.
Attracting and developing a deep bench of talent is critical to long-term success
A team approach that emphasizes stability, collaboration and continuous improvement fosters a culture of investment excellence, providing the experience and perspective to successfully navigate real estate and stock market cycles.
Local decision-making within a global process
The drivers of real estate fundamentals are inherently local, so there is a benefit to locating analysts on the ground in the regions they cover.
Integrated risk management is paramount
Delivery of superior risk-adjusted returns demands an embedded, comprehensive and multidimensional approach to risk management.
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis is explicitly integrated into our securities analysis and portfolio construction process
We think the deep understanding of ESG risks and policies are critical to unlocking value and mitigating risk.
APPROACH
Our investment process
Our strategy employs a relative-value investment process to identify securities that we believe are mispriced relative to underlying assets (e.g., net asset value, or NAV) and going concerns (e.g., dividend discount model, or DDM) and is designed to generate meaningful and consistent alpha.
Macro research
Our macro research process is based on the following critical factors: the economy, real estate fundamentals, capital markets and the regulatory and political environment.
Model overlay
Portfolio managers generate a standard overlay of economic assumptions that creates a framework around which our analysts can build models to estimate key financial metrics.
Fundamental research
The analysts use fundamental qualitative and quantitative research to generate forward-looking NAVs and DDM estimates for the securities under coverage. The team integrates ESG factors into the research and valuations as an integral aspect of the investment process.
Portfolio construction
Our proprietary valuation model guides portfolio construction. Judgments with respect to risk management, liquidity and other factors overlay the model’s output and drive investment decisions.
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Vehicles
The strategy is available to investors through the following vehicles:
Institutional Separate Accounts
Cohen & Steers provides customized investment strategies to institutional investors, including some of the world’s largest pension funds, endowments and foundations.
Collective Investment Trusts
Cohen & Steers offers CITs for qualified defined benefit and defined contribution plans.
Separately Managed Accounts
For a more personalized approach to investing, Cohen & Steers’ separately managed accounts (SMAs) allow for greater customization of portfolios and enhanced tax efficiency.
SICAV Funds
Our investment strategies are available through our Luxembourg domiciled SICAV funds and are offered through many leading platforms.
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Past performance does not predict future returns. Risks involved with investment, including potential loss of capital, are substantial and should be carefully considered. The views and opinions are as of the date of publication and are subject to change without notice. There is no guarantee that any historical trend illustrated above will be repeated in the future, and there is no way to predict precisely when such a trend will begin. There is no guarantee that a market forecast made above will be realized. Active management is not guaranteed to outperform the broader market index.
Important Risk Considerations: Investing involves risk, including entire loss of capital invested. There can be no assurance that the investment strategy will meet its investment objectives. Diversification is not guaranteed to ensure a profit or protect against loss. Risks of investing in real estate securities are similar to those associated with direct investments in real estate, including falling property values due to increasing vacancies or declining rents resulting from economic, legal, political or technological developments, lack of liquidity, limited diversification and sensitivity to certain economic factors such as interest rate changes and market recessions. Foreign securities involve special risks, including currency fluctuations, lower liquidity, political and economic uncertainties, and differences in accounting standards. Some international securities may represent small- and medium-sized companies, which may be more susceptible to price volatility and less liquidity than larger companies.