Cohen & Steers, Inc. Announces Management Appointments in Cohen & Steers Private Real Estate Group
April 19, 2021 at 08:25 am EDT
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Cohen & Steers, Inc. announced the formation of the Cohen & Steers Private Real Estate Group, a team purpose-built for private real estate investing. The Private Real Estate Group broadens the firm's opportunity set to include the $15 trillion U.S. commercial real estate market that is private, representing more than 90% of the U.S. market not owned by listed REITs. The new capability will enhance the firm's range of real estate strategies and its ability to provide clients with bespoke solutions. The private team is led by James S. Corl, Executive Vice President. Mr. Corl rejoins Cohen & Steers after spending the last eleven years as Head of Real Estate at Siguler Guff & Company, LP, where he built a private real estate investment team that raised four dedicated opportunistic real estate private equityfunds and invested $3 billion of capital. Prior to Siguler Guff, he was a key member of the real estate team at Cohen & Steers for eleven years, including four years as CIO of listed real estate. He is joined by: Hamid Tabib, Head of Real Estate Acquisitions, North America (previously on the real estate team at Siguler Guff), Josh Silverman, Principal, Acquisitions (previously at Northwood Investors, a real estate private equityinvestment firm), Jon Rhoden, Senior Associate (previously at Goldman Sachs' Merchant Banking Real Estate group).
Cohen & Steers, Inc. is a holding company, which is engaged in global investment management. The Company 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 Companyâs 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 Company manages three types of investment vehicles, such as open-end funds, institutional accounts, and closed end.