Our Purpose and Values

What makes us distinctive.

 

Fully InvestedSM in Your Future

We’re committed to helping you achieve better outcomes…the way you define them. We get there by empowering diverse perspectives and breaking through boundaries. We’re collaborative and connected—and we never stop working for you.

 

Serving Our Clients

Being the most valued asset-management partner: that’s the common commitment from our three complementary businesses, each meeting a distinct client need.

Asset Management

We are committed to seeking alpha. A unique combination of expertise across equities, fixed-income, alternatives and multi-asset strategies and a connected global network helps us deliver differentiated insights and distinctive solutions to advance investors’ success.
 

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Research and Trading

Wall Street’s premier independent sell-side research and brokerage firm delivers trusted investment research and trading execution to drive better outcomes.

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Private Wealth Management

We offer sophisticated wealth-planning tools and expert advice for high-net-worth individuals, families and smaller institutions, helping investors make their money meaningful.

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At a Glance

We work every day to earn our clients’ trust, whether they’re individual investors or the world’s biggest institutions. By tapping a global network of diverse perspectives, we design innovative solutions tailored to meet investors’ unique needs and engineered to deliver the performance they expect.

 

What Sets Us Apart

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Differentiated Insights

Diverse perspectives foster differentiated insights, which we translate into a broad range of innovative solutions across equities, fixed-income, alternatives and multi-asset strategies.

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Responsibility

At AB, we act and invest responsibly, striving to create better outcomes for the clients we serve, the communities where we work and the world we live in.

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Culture

Culture is a constant at AB. We’re working every day to create a diverse, inclusive and connected culture that empowers everyone to become their best selves.

 

Our Leadership

Drawing on decades of experience and well-honed perspectives, AB’s leadership team provides tone from the top, shaping the firm’s strategic direction and instilling the values that guide our way.

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Our People

We’re intellectually curious and prize relentless ingenuity. Working together and sharing diverse perspectives, we’re committed to making a difference and elevating outcomes.

 

Our Purpose and Values

Our purpose and values ground us in what makes AB distinctive, guiding how we act and make decisions, and how we deliver better outcomes for our clients.

 
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Global Reach

An expansive network of research, portfolio-management, wealth-management and client-service offices across six continents keeps us globally connected and in touch with local needs.

 
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We Encourage Conversations

Find specific information on how to contact AB’s teams and corporate functions.

 
 

We embrace disruptive technologies, innovating and breaking through boundaries to deliver better outcomes for our clients.

Karl Sprules—Chief Operating Officer