Cohen & Steers Joins SUBSCRIBE Alternative Investment Platform to Expand Private Real Estate Access for Private Wealth Channel
September 12, 2024 (New York, NY) – SUBSCRIBE, a leading operating system for alternative investments serving institutional investors, wealth management firms, and fund managers, announced today that leading real assets investment manager Cohen & Steers (NYSE: CNS) has joined the SUBSCRIBE platform to offer its private real estate strategies. The implementation of a centralized operating system will streamline investment and operational processes for clients in the private wealth channel while expanding availability of Cohen & Steers’ alternative products, such as Cohen & Steers Income Opportunities REIT, Inc. (“CNSREIT”), a perpetual-life non-traded REIT, to financial advisors using SUBSCRIBE.
“We believe we’re approaching a generational opportunity in the private commercial real estate market that funds with fresh capital will be well-positioned to leverage,” said Daniel Noonan, Head of Wealth Management Consulting Group at Cohen & Steers. “Our partnership with SUBSCRIBE will enable Cohen & Steers to continue delivering innovative products and solutions to help financial advisors optimize their clients’ portfolios with private real estate through a seamless, end-to-end experience.”
Specific alternative solutions across Cohen & Steers private capital offerings will leverage the technology to streamline many of the operational tasks, such as investor onboarding, subscription documents, transaction workflow management, system integrations and investor reporting to support the full life cycle of an investment.
“Cohen & Steers joins over 2,000 leading alternative investment managers, institutional investors, and wealth management firms that are using SUBSCRIBE to automate private fund investment processes,” said Rafay Farooqui, Chairman, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SUBSCRIBE. “Aligning our platform to support Cohen & Steers’ strategic goals embodies our vision to help digitally transform the alternative investments industry. We are proud to partner with them as they ensure an easy and seamless workflow for their limited partners.”
About Cohen & Steers
Cohen & Steers is a leading global investment manager specializing in real assets and alternative income, including listed and private real estate, preferred securities, infrastructure, resource equities, commodities, as well as multi-strategy solutions. Founded in 1986, the firm is headquartered in New York City, with offices in London, Dublin, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Singapore.
ABOUT SUBSCRIBE
SUBSCRIBE is a fintech company digitally transforming the landscape of alternative investments for fund managers, institutional investors, wealth managers, law firms, and fund administrators. Our platform technology modernizes the archaic infrastructure of private fund investments by delivering a central operating system — catering to every role within the investment process empowering them to connect any fund, any investor, anywhere in the world on a single platform.
