Our Businesses
At AllianceBernstein, we have dedicated ourselves solely to the business of long-term, fundamental asset management. For over 40 years, we have helped investors build and preserve wealth by providing innovative investment solutions.
U.S./Non-U.S. Investors & Financial Advisors
U.S. Investors and Financial Advisors
AllianceBernstein Investments offers individual investors a diverse line of investment vehicles including mutual funds, college savings (529) plans, retirement planning products and separately managed accounts.
Non-U.S. Investors and Financial Advisors
ACM Funds offers investors over 30 Luxemburg-registered funds and over 60 locally-registered funds in countries around the world. They include global, regional and sector equity investments as well as a full range of fixed income products, spanning the risk spectrum from short maturity to global high yield funds.
Our Clients
3.7 Million Client Relationships
Serving Our Clients
35 US Mutual Funds*
38 Non-US Based Mutual Funds†
Materially expand global breadth and depth of investment offerings and markets served
Innovate the retirement market with next generation target-date funds
Provide services most relevant to largest financial advisors
What Makes Us Unique
Unparalleled asset allocation expertise
Investment excellence in all asset categories and geographies
Investment in our people—our own and our distributors
Institutional Investments
AllianceBernstein Institutional Investments is a preeminent resource for institutional investors worldwide, delivering the full spectrum of the firm’s investment services and solutions to many of the world’s leading institutions. These clients include two-thirds of the world’s largest pension plans as well as defined-contribution plans, foundations and endowments, insurance companies, central banks and governments in more than 45 countries.
Our Clients
~1,800 Client Relationships
43 Fortune 100 Companies
Public Pension Funds Across 39 States
Serving Our Clients
Exploit superior global research, investment and client service platforms
Expand global distribution footprint
Continue to leverage strong consultant relationships
Innovate the retirement market with next generation target-date funds
What Makes Us Unique
Ability to compete for a broad array of client mandates by asset class, style, geography and currency reference
Superior global asset allocation capability
Integrated global research and portfolio management infrastructure
Significant commitment to fun damental and quantitative research
Strong consultant advocacy
http://www.alliancebernstein.com/institutional
Global Wealth Management
Our sole focus is helping wealthy individuals and families achieve their financial goals. A dedicated Advisor works closely with each client to tailor a plan that addresses lifetime spending, multigenerational wealth transfer, and philanthropic giving needs while expressly considering unique personal circumstances such as applicable tax rates and age. Our clients have exclusive access to a wide range of products—including portfolios in stocks from across the world’s markets, bonds, real estate investment trusts, and hedge funds—each managed by seasoned professionals supported by rigorous, in-depth research.
Our Clients
We manage investments for private families and individuals of means around the world.
Serving Our Clients
Our goals in serving clients are:
To help them sustain financial well-being, whatever their definition of that may be
To help them feel financially secure by keeping them apprised of how we’re managing their investments and why
To earn for them the after-tax investment return they require with a minimum of risk
What Makes Us Unique
Our firm is known for:
Investment research that is second to none, with a view to consistently knowing more than other market participants and using that knowledge better
Experience and stability, as evidenced by solid investment records dating back as long as 30 years
Centralized investment decision making so that every client regardless of portfolio size gets the best our firm has to offer
Financial Advisors of uncommon quality and professionalism, in order to maintain outstanding client service and communication in both directions
The ongoing availability of our most senior professionals to clients who need to confer directly with them
Institutional Research
Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC, the institutional research services group of AllianceBernstein, provides in-depth fundamental research, portfolio strategy, execution and brokerage services. The organization is consistently among the most highly ranked independent sell-side research teams, according to industry surveys conducted by third-party organizations. With bottom-up coverage and portfolio strategies supported by sophisticated quantitative tools, our reports and studies are distributed to clients in the U.S., Europe and Asia.
Our Clients
Leading investment managers, mutual funds, and hedge funds around the world
Serving Our Clients
Maintain industry-leading research position
Expand trade execution capabilities to low touch offerings and proprietary algorithms
Continue to expand aggressively in non-U.S. company research for global clients
What Makes Us Unique
Highly-regarded research
Independent investment research: no investment banking
U.S. and non-U.S. research and trading capabilities
Highly ranked sales force
Conflict-free agency trading model that delivers best execution
http://www.bernsteinresearch.com