Cohen & Steers has appointed Richard Hill as head of real estate strategy & research, a newly created position on the investment team reporting to Jon Cheigh, CIO and head of global real estate.
In this role, Hill will lead the real estate strategy group, a team responsible for identifying and analyzing long-term and secular real estate investment ideas, as well as building an integrated listed and private real estate strategy function to help investors optimize portfolios both strategically and tactically.
Hill brings 21 years of real estate experience to Cohen & Steers, having most recently served as the head of U.S. REIT Equity & CRE debt research at Morgan Stanley, where he oversaw public REIT equity research, CRE debt strategy and macro property research. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 2013, he worked at RBS Securities as the director of CMBS & CLO Strategy and at Bank of America as a vice president and strategic transaction Banker.
