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Cohen & Company
Lester Brafman leads publicly traded asset manager Cohen & Company, which aligns its own balance sheet with insurance clients in structured credit.
Cohen & Company
Cohen & Company is an SEC-registered investment adviser in New York, NY, established in 1986. The firm manages $85.7 billion in assets. It has 367 employees and 60 investment advisers.
General information
Firm type
Asset Manager
Year founded
1999
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
Cleveland
Corporate office
Cleveland, OH, United States
Principals
Daniel G. Cohen
Chairman of the Board
Lester R. Brafman
Chief Executive Officer
Sector focus
Frequently asked questions
How is Cohen & Company structured differently from a typical private asset manager?
Cohen & Company is a publicly traded C-corporation listed on the NYSE American exchange. That means it funds its investment activities with permanent equity capital from public shareholders alongside client mandates, rather than relying solely on closed-end fund structures and limited-partner commitments. The firm's own financials are reported quarterly, giving allocators a level of transparency into its economics that private partnerships do not provide.
What is Cohen & Company's relationship with the insurance industry?
Insurance companies are the firm's core institutional client base. Cohen & Company's Asset Management segment structures and manages collateralized debt obligations and other credit vehicles specifically for US and European insurers. The firm has built its structured-credit and fixed-income trading capabilities around the regulatory-capital and yield requirements of insurance-company portfolios.
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