Company: CNS
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001284812-25-000127
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Company: COHEN & STEERS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: DEF 14A
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 & Warren. Mr. Poli serves as the executive vice president, general counsel and secretary of Cohen & Steers Capital Management, Inc. and as chief legal officer of Cohen & Steers Income Opportunities REIT, Inc. Mr. Poli also serves as assistant secretary of each of the company’s U.S. registered open-end and closed-end funds, as a director of Cohen & Steers Asia Limited, Cohen & Steers UK Limited, Cohen & Steers Japan Limited, Cohen & Steers Singapore Private Limited and Cohen & Steers SICAV and as a director and president of Cohen & Steers Securities, LLC. Mr. Poli has a BA degree from Boston College and a JD from Pace University School of Law.

There are no family relationships between or among any of the company’s directors and executive officers.

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### EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

### Compensation Discussion and Analysis

#### Our 2024 Highlights
Global equity and fixed income markets remained volatile in 2024, driven by investor concerns about inflation, changes in central bank policies, geopolitical instability and technological innovation and disruption. As a global asset manager with a long-term focus, we successfully navigated this volatility for clients and shareholders by leveraging our portfolio management expertise, disciplined risk management framework and prudent cost controls.

We are an industry leader in real assets and alternative income, and are committed to capitalizing on our position and delivering excess returns for our clients over the long term. We believe we are well-positioned for growth in 2025 as the global macro environment is becoming more favorable for our core strategies.

Throughout 2024, our board and executive committee – a group that collectively owned 45.3% of our outstanding shares as of December 31, 2024 – continued to focus on our core priorities to deliver investment excellence for our clients and strong long-term total returns for our shareholders.

Investment performance . Our investment performance continued to be strong in 2024 relative to our benchmarks and we remained focused on delivering longer-term results for our clients. In particular:

• In terms of relative performance, as measured by December 31, 2024 assets under management:

◦ 95% of our portfolios outperformed their benchmarks on a one-year basis.

◦ 96%, 97% and 99% of our portfolios outperformed their benchmarks on a three-, five- and ten-year basis, respectively.

• As of December 31, 2024, 94% percent of our U.S