Real Estate Opportunities
This strategy seeks to deliver capital appreciation and income by investing in a diversified portfolio of U.S. REITs and other real estate securities and may contain opportunistic allocations to real estate debt and preferred securities, non-core REITs, international real estate securities and options.
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
Cohen & Steers Real Estate Opportunities seeks to deliver capital appreciation and income by investing in a diversified portfolio of U.S. REITs and other real estate securities and may contain opportunistic allocations to real estate debt and preferred securities, non-core REITs, international real estate securities and options.
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 long-standing commitment to the asset class, our top priority is to deliver strong investment performance through our industry-leading real estate securities platform. Our dedication and drive for excellence have allowed us to build a foundation designed to provide sustainable outperformance relative to our peers.
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PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
An experienced team
+7 analysts and associates
PORTFOLIO SPECIALIST GROUP
Supporting our investment team and clients
We believe that 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 tend to be more attuned to changes in property fundamentals, often 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.
3 Reasons to own Listed REITs today
We see compelling evidence to own listed real estate in the current environment.
The Real Estate Reel: Where are we in the private real estate cycle?
Rising listed REIT valuations, troughing private commercial real estate prices, and rising CRE debt distress are sending a signal that there may be a light at the end of the tunnel for the broader CRE markets.
A new market regime for REITs
A regime shift to lower rates is a favorable backdrop for REITs, in our view.
The Real Estate Reel: The potential benefits of blending listed REITs and private CRE
Adding listed REITs at certain levels to a private real estate allocation has been shown to increase performance, reduce volatility, and limit drawdowns.
The Real Estate Reel: Is office as problematic as you think?
Office is not a very big part of the commercial real estate market. Bank exposure to office is also a lot lower than the media headlines would suggest. And newer buildings are actually still seeing strong demand.
The Real Estate Reel: What’s actually driving listed REIT returns
While real rates are driving listed REITs performance so far this year, a function of the market now pricing in one to two interest rate cuts this year, we believe the market has become preoccupied with the timing and magnitude of interest rate cuts.
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We consider the information in this communication to be accurate, but we do not represent that it is complete or should be relied upon as the sole source of suitability for investment. Investors should consult their own investment professional with respect to their individual circumstances.
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.
The strategy invests in private real estate investments which are illiquid and susceptible to economic slowdowns or recessions and industry cycles, which could lead to financial losses in a portfolio and a decrease in revenues, net income and assets. Lack of liquidity in the private real estate market makes valuing underlying assets difficult. Appraisal values may vary substantially from a price at which an investment in real estate may actually be sold.
The strategy may use leverage, directly or indirectly in connection with an investment. The use of leverage involves a high degree of financial risk and may increase the exposure of investments in the strategy to factors such as rising interest rates, downturns in the economy, or deterioration in the condition of the properties underlying such investments. Leverage magnifies favorable and unfavorable effects of price movements in a portfolio’s underlying assets and overall aggregate returns of a portfolio.
A portfolio in the strategy could potentially be concentrated in relatively few underlying assets and thus the benefits of diversification may not be fully realized. Because of the length of time typically needed to construct a private real estate portfolio, initially the strategy will not be diversified. A limited number of underlying assets could result in aggregate returns realized by the investor which are substantially adversely affected by the unfavorable performance of a small number of underlying assets.