Fixed Income

We bring clarity the "New"—with an Integrated, Tech-Enabled Platform

Helping Solve Real-World Challenges

Fusing technology with human insight to deliver outcome-focused solutions.

184

Fixed-Income Investment Professionals

$313B

Fixed-Income AUM

Seamlessly Connected Platform

AUM includes AB funds that may hold other AB funds. Official Fixed Income AUM is $301 billion, excluding MAS accounts. Not inclusive of all sectors. Removes Derivatives.

Solving What Matters Most

In a fragmented, fast-moving market, we help clients cut through complexity with practical, insight-driven strategies built for real-world results. We bring together deep expertise, rigorous quantitative and fundamental research, and advanced technology, collaborating across regions and disciplines to unlock opportunities others miss. We don’t chase the next new thing—we stay anchored in what matters most to our clients.

Tech-Empowered Innovation

We embed innovation into every part of how we work. Our fixed-income team and tech experts have engineered custom tools that digitize research, inform decisions and accelerate execution across opaque markets. By integrating powerful tools into every step, we free our teams to focus on what technology can’t do: creative problem-solving that drives better outcomes for clients.

Partner of Choice

We work as an extension of our clients’ teams—offering access to our firm’s experts and insights as clients navigate markets and tackle complex challenges. We collaborate closely to simplify decisions and help clients move forward with clarity and confidence.

Solving What Matters Most

Our integrated global team helps clients cut through complexity with practical, insight-driven strategies built for real-world results.

Pioneering an approach that seeks to deliver stable income across changing market environments

Providing new sources of differentiated risk and return through factor investing

Offering personalized investing for high-net-worth individuals through separately managed accounts

Enhancing portfolio resilience with global sector diversification

There is no guarantee that any investment objectives will be achieved. The value of an investment can go down as well as up and investors may not get back the full amount they invested. Capital is at risk.

Collaborating to Unlock Opportunities

Our teams share their expertise and diverse perspectives across sectors, geographies and disciplines—on one seamlessly connected platform.

DM: Developed Market; EM: Emerging Markets; IG: Investment Grade; HY: High Yield; all data shown are as of March 31, 2026

Transforming Research into Results

A blend of rigorous quantitative and fundamental research drives our tech-powered process.

A strong foundation of rigorous quantitative and fundamental research, guided by robust risk management and powered by our proprietary technology platform.

An integrated framework in which top-down research provides breadth and helps determine where to focus, while bottom-up research provides depth and clarity on specific risks.

Our research framework translates research insights into daily buy and sell guidance.

Portfolio managers evaluate suggested buys and sells using their experience and judgment.

Our dynamic, continuously refreshed process, with ongoing inputs from research, risk management and technology working together in real time, leads to the client portfolio.

Strategies

AllianceBernstein manages a comprehensive range of fixed-income strategies across global and regional markets, including systematic strategies, income-oriented portfolios, government bonds, investment-grade and high-yield corporate credit, securitized assets and emerging-market debt.

Differentiated Risk and Return

Systematic Fixed Income, Global and Regional Systematic Credit

Diversified Market Exposure

Global and Regional Core and Core Plus, Global Multi-Sector

Stable Income

American Income, European Income, Asia Income, Short Duration Income, Ultra-Short Income, Mortgage Income

High-Grade Credit

Global Credit, Asia Credit, US Credit

High Income

Low-Volatility High Yield, Global and Regional High Yield, Emerging-Market Debt, Emerging-Market Corporates, Securitized Assets, Multi-Sector High Income

Targeted

Cash Strategies, Inflation Strategies, Portfolios with Purpose, Buy-and-Maintain Credit

The offering of our strategies may be restricted in certain jurisdictions subject to adverse tax consequences in certain jurisdictions.

Tech-Empowered Innovation

We embed innovation into everything we do—combining human insight with powerful proprietary technology to drive better outcomes. Interconnected technology powers performance, with tools built by AB Fixed Income for AB Fixed Income.

100+ Dedicated Tech Experts

Faster to Market

Lower Execution Costs

Seamless Interface Captures Short-Lived Opportunities Others May Miss

PRISM

Our proprietary credit-rating and risk-scoring platform, PRISM, digitizes analysts’ company insights, centralizes fundamental research and enables cross-asset valuation.

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Abbie

Our virtual bond-trading and portfolio assistant, Abbie, suggests buys and sells, sources hard-to-find bonds and builds trade orders for portfolio managers.

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How PRISM Unlocks ESG Data

Our digital scoring system, PRISM 3.0, puts robust, financially material environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics at portfolio managers’ fingertips, turning an ESG data problem into a data-driven solution.

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Partner of Choice

We work as an extension of our clients’ teams—providing access to our
experts and insights to help them make smarter decisions.

Client-Centered Engagements Around the World Each Year

In Living Ratings of Asset Managers 2025

for a user-centric digital experience distinguished by excellence and substance

Fixed-Income Business Development Professionals

with deep market specialization—Nashville, New York, London, Paris, Hong Kong, Seoul, Taipei, Tokyo

~100

Expert-Led Forums

Client-focused webcasts, symposiums and panel discussions*

125+

CIOs at Our Global CIO Forum

connecting senior allocators for exclusive strategy discussions

440+

Thought Leadership

Actionable insights in a variety of formats

1,000+

Fixed-Income Portfolio Manager Meetings with Clients

Addressing your unique challenges and goals

*Not including Bernstein Private Wealth, which averages ~475 events annually. All data shown are as of March 31, 2026. Source: Living Group and AB

Fixed-Income Insights

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Frequently Asked Questions

At AllianceBernstein Fixed Income, we’re aligned around a single goal: helping clients solve real-world challenges. Across fragmented, fast-moving markets, we operate as one integrated global team, combining rigorous fundamental and quantitative research with technology to cut through complexity. We embed innovation into everything we do by fusing human insight with powerful in-house technology to drive better outcomes. And we partner closely with clients, applying our expertise to help them navigate decisions with clarity and confidence, and to deliver value beyond returns alone.

For many clients, solving real-world challenges starts with sourcing stable income, so we pioneered a suite of investment strategies that seek to deliver consistent income across market environments. As many investment solutions become commoditized, clients are also looking for sources of differentiated risk and return, which is why we’ve invested deeply in factor-based, systematic investing. Across all this runs a common thread: a culture of innovation focused on solving client needs, including portfolio resilience through global multi-sector diversification and personalization of high-net-worth client portfolios.

At AllianceBernstein, our fixed-income technology supports—not supplants—human judgment. While each tool is powerful in its own right, their connectivity allows us to translate research into actionable portfolio decisions, re-optimize portfolios as markets evolve and execute trades with greater liquidity and pricing clarity. Developed in-house and integrated across the investment lifecycle, our platform delivers faster insight, allows more efficient execution and helps us capture opportunities in fast-moving, fragmented markets.

Clients face increasingly complex investment challenges. We work as a partner to help them navigate that complexity, providing direct access to our experts, actionable insights and a global perspective—backed by more than 1,000 portfolio manager meetings, nearly 100 expert-led forums and hundreds of pieces of thought leadership each year (as of December 31, 2025). Through this ongoing engagement and a #1-ranked, client-centered digital experience, we work as an extension of our clients’ teams to help them make decisions with clarity and confidence.

Investors should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses of the Fund/Portfolio carefully before investing. For copies of our prospectus or summary prospectus, which contain this and other information, contact your financial representative. Please read the prospectus and/or summary prospectus carefully before investing. There is no assurance that a separately managed account will achieve its investment objective. Separately managed accounts are subject to market risk; the market values of securities owned will fluctuate so that your investment, when redeemed, may be worth more or less than its original cost.

AllianceBernstein L.P. (AB) is the Investment Advisor for the Fund. Distributed by Foreside Fund Services, LLC. Foreside is not affiliated with AllianceBernstein.

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