My interest in such articles is to check the historical record to see if, in fact, a fund manager or fund family should be considered one of those “masters of the universe” who persistently generate alpha, outperforming their appropriate benchmarks. I was particularly interested in Cohen & Steers because prior to making the switch in 1995 to using passively managed funds (such as index funds), my firm, Buckingham, had used Cohen & Steers for allocations to REITs. With that in mind, let’s take a look at how the “King of REITS” has done – knowing that hindsight is 20/20 (we know today that perhaps Cohen & Steers is the “King,” but 20 years ago, we couldn’t have known with certainty that it would become the king).

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