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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 any conflicts of interest.

In assessing McLagan’s independence, the Compensation Committee considered the following factors:

• any other services provided by McLagan to the company;

• aggregate fees paid by the company to McLagan and fees as a percentage of McLagan’s total revenue;

• McLagan’s policies and procedures designed to prevent conflicts of interest;

• any business or personal relationship between the consultant and any member of the Compensation Committee or any business or personal relationship between McLagan or the consultant and any executive officer of the company; and

• whether the consultant holds any shares of the company’s stock.

#### Peer Data
We compete on an ongoing basis with other asset management companies for executive talent, and we must attract and retain talent with industry-specific skills and experience. Therefore, on an annual basis, the

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Compensation Committee reviews executive compensation market data compiled by McLagan from public and private asset management companies. The Compensation Committee believes that this market data is a useful and appropriate reference point for assessing competitive compensation levels for our executive officers.

Consistent with the approach used in recent years to evaluate competitive market pay levels, during fiscal 2024 the Compensation Committee reviewed competitive market data for two peer groups provided by McLagan:

• a survey peer group consisting of public and private asset management firms of generally comparable size and complexity; and

• a group of mid-sized, publicly traded asset management firms.

The survey peer group is as follows, consisting of 47 firms with December 31, 2023 assets under management of between $50 billion and $400 billion:

| Acadian Asset Management LLC               |     | Jennison Associates                    |
| American Century Investment Services, Inc. |     | LaSalle Investment Management          |
| Amundi Pioneer Asset Management USA, Inc.  |     | Lazard Asset Management LLC            |
| Annaly Capital Management, Inc.            |     | Loomis, Sayles & Company L.P.          |
| Artisan Partners Asset Management Inc.     |     | Lord, Abbett & Co. LLC                 |
| Barings LLC                                |     | M&G Investments*                       |
| Bessemer Trust Company                     |     | MacKay Shields                         |
| Brightsphere Investment Group*             |     | Perpetual Limited                      |
| Brown Advisory Incorporated                |     | PineBridge Investments                 |
| Brown Brothers Harriman                    |     | ProFund Advisors LLC                   |
| CI Investments Inc.*                       |     | Pzena Investment Management, LLC