Cohen & Steers Inc., an funding supervisor specializing in actual belongings and different earnings, has named Daniel Noonan to guide its efforts to develop its distribution within the wealth house.
Noonan joins Cohen & Steers as govt vp and head of the agency’s wealth administration consulting group. Noonan will lead groups centered on the RIA, dealer/vendor, U.S. personal financial institution, multi-family workplace, OCIO and retirement channels. He reviews to Dan Charles, Cohen’s head of world distribution.
Noonan fills the void created when Cohen’s earlier wealth channel head, Kimberly LaPointe, left the agency in February for the same position with Macquarie Asset Administration.
Noonan joins Cohen & Steers with over 20 years of monetary companies expertise. He most lately served as senior managing director and head of enterprise wealth and the personal capital group at Nuveen. Previous to becoming a member of Nuveen in 2022, he labored at PIMCO as govt vp and head of ETF gross sales and at State Avenue World Advisors as managing director and head of wealth administration gross sales.
“Our Wealth Administration Consulting Group continues to be a key natural development driver for our agency as we innovate new methods and options throughout actual belongings and different earnings,” Cohen & Steers Head of World Distribution Dan Charles mentioned in an announcement. “Dan’s expertise, significantly throughout the personal wealth channel, can be crucial as we develop our agency’s capabilities throughout each listed and personal actual property.”
Just like different asset managers, Cohen & Steers has centered on increasing its choices for the wealth channel.
“We see a chance for monetary advisors and their shoppers to embrace actual belongings within the new macroeconomic regime characterised by larger inflation, larger rates of interest and elevated market volatility,” Cohen & Steers CEO and President Joe Harvey mentioned in an announcement.
Cohen & Steers started constructing out its personal wealth options enterprise when it employed John Moore and launched a non-traded REIT, CNSREIT, in 2023. The REIT acquired its first property early in 2024, an open-air purchasing middle in a Dallas suburb.
This yr the Cohen & Steers additionally launched a proprietary software, the Actual Belongings Compass, designed to assist monetary advisors enhance portfolio risk-return profiles by displaying the potential advantages of listed and personal actual property allocations in a portfolio. (The compass has been named a finalist for the 2024 WealthManagement.com Business Awards within the Actual Property (Together with REITs) class.)
Lastly, in April, it launched its Way forward for Power technique and transformed the Cohen & Steers MLP & Power Alternative Fund (NYSE: MLOIX) to the Cohen & Steers Way forward for Power Fund, centered on offering allocations to each conventional and different power.
