Portfolio Objective and Strategy:
AllianceBernstein Balanced Wealth Strategy seeks to achieve the highest total return consistent with the Advisor’s determination of reasonable risk. The Strategy is designed for investors who seek a moderate tilt toward equity returns without regard to taxes but also want risk diversification offered by debt securities and broad diversification of equity risk across styles, capitalization ranges and geographic regions.
Normally, the Strategy’s targeted weighting is 60% in portfolios that invest primarily in equity and 40% in portfolios that invest primarily in debt securities. The Strategy’s targeted equity blend is an equal weighting of portfolios that invest primarily in growth and value stocks (50% each), with approximately 70% of each investing in portfolios primarily composed of U.S. companies and 30% in portfolios investing primarily in non-U.S. companies. The Strategy’s fixed income portfolios will primarily be investment grade, but may include high yield (“junk bonds”) and preferred stock. The Advisor will allow the Strategy’s relative weightings to change in response to markets, but only within carefully constructed ranges. Beyond those ranges, the Advisor will rebalance toward the targeted blends.
The Strategy can also selectively invest in portfolios of real estate investment trusts (REITs), which often provide attractive income yet historically have had a low correlation to the other asset classes that can make up the portfolio.