Company: CNS
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001284812-25-000127
Chunk: 19

Company: COHEN & STEERS, INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-21
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 19
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 that are designed to work together to protect the data and systems used in the company’s business; and

• together with the Nominating Committee, periodically reviewing and confirming the propriety of the company’s executive succession and management continuity plans, designed to provide leadership stability and predictability in the event of any anticipated or unanticipated transition or succession in a senior executive position and its ability to immediately execute any such plans to ensure continuity of senior leadership in the event any executives became unable to perform their duties for an extended time for any reason.

Each committee of the Board also has responsibility for evaluating and providing oversight of certain risks.

The Audit Committee plays a key role in oversight of the company’s financial risk management function. The Audit Committee’s oversight of risk management includes, among other things:

• regularly conferring with management and, as appropriate, the company’s internal and external auditors, on several topics, including the financial, legal, operational, information security (including cybersecurity and data privacy risks) and regulatory risks affecting the company and related risk mitigation efforts;

• reviewing and discussing with management any related party transactions;

• reviewing certain of the company’s insurance coverage, including directors and officers (D&O) insurance and coverage for losses relating to cybersecurity incidents impacting the company, and recommending the appropriate level of coverage;

• receiving reports from our global chief compliance officer (or their designee) regarding our enterprise level risks and regularly communicating with management regarding actual and potential risks to the company arising from its operating environment; and

• reviewing and discussing with management material breaches of the company’s codes of conduct.

The Compensation Committee’s oversight of risk management includes, among other things:

• overseeing the management of risks relating to the company’s compensation practices and programs, including whether any such practices or programs encourage excessive risk taking; and

• overseeing the company’s compliance with applicable laws and regulations with respect to compensation matters.

The Nominating Committee’s oversight of risk management includes, among other things:

• assessing the independence and possible conflicts of interest of members of the Board and the company’s executive officers, and whether any director candidate has special interests or a specific agenda that would impair such director’s ability to effectively represent the interests of all shareholders;

• together with the Board, periodically reviewing and confirming the propriety of the company’s executive succession and management continuity plans, designed to provide leadership stability and predictability in the event of any anticipated or unanticipated transition or succession in a senior executive position and its ability to immediately execute any such plans to ensure continuity of senior leadership in the event any