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The views expressed herein do not constitute research, investment advice or trade recommendations and do not necessarily represent the views of all AB portfolio-management teams. Views are subject to revision over time.
As of April 1, 2025
Source: Columbia Climate School Natural Center for Disaster Preparedness and AllianceBernstein (AB)
As of April 1, 2025
Source: AB
The views expressed herein do not constitute research, investment advice or trade recommendations and do not necessarily represent the views of all AB portfolio-management teams. Views are subject to revision over time.
Patrick O’Connell is a Senior Vice President and Director of Responsible Investing Portfolio Solutions and Research for public markets. In this role, he develops strategies and tools that help integrate ESG considerations into the teams’ research, engagement and investment processes across AB’s Equities and Fixed Income businesses. From 2021 to 2024, O’Connell served as director of Fixed Income Responsible Investing Research. Earlier in his career, he served as a corporate credit research analyst, focusing on emerging-market corporates in Latin American and African countries. O’Connell joined the Emerging Markets research team in 2013 after working as a credit analyst covering US high-yield energy credits at AB. Prior to joining the firm in 2012, he was a desk analyst at UBS Investment Bank, where he helped allocate capital on the trading desk. O’Connell holds a BS in accounting and finance (magna cum laude) from Villanova University and is a CFA charterholder. Location: New York
John Huang is a Senior Vice President and AB’s Director of Responsible Investments, Data and Technology on the Responsibility team, where he partners with our Technology and Operations team to develop and execute on our strategy for ESG data, technology and analytics across the firm. This is an expansion of his role as director of Fixed Income Responsible Investing, Data and Technology. Huang previously spent eight years as a research analyst for Commercial Real Estate Credit Research within the Securitized Assets Research team, covering commercial mortgage-backed securities in support of the firm’s global fixed-income portfolios. Prior to that, he was an associate portfolio manager on the Fixed Income Multi-Sector team, serving US Core and Core Plus clients. Huang joined AB in 2005 as an attribution analyst and developed the firm’s proprietary fixed-income attribution platform. Prior to that, he worked as a performance analyst at UBS. Huang holds a BS in finance and information technology and an MBA from the State University of New York, Binghamton. He also holds a Series 7 and 63 license and is a CFA charterholder.
Kathleen Dumes is a Vice President and Research Analyst on AB’s Responsible Investing Portfolio Solutions and Research team. In this role, she develops strategies and tools for equity and fixed-income teams, including integrating ESG considerations throughout the teams’ research, engagement and investment processes. Previously, Dumes was a research analyst on the Fixed Income Responsible Investing team. Prior to that she served as a portfolio analyst on the Global Multi-Sector Portfolio Management team, where she was responsible for the management and strategy implementation of the firm’s income-oriented credit strategies. Prior to joining the multisector team, Dumes was an associate portfolio manager on the Investment Grade Credit team, focusing on Global and US Credit portfolios. Before joining AB in 2015, she was an investment consultant at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in their Institutional Investment Strategy Group. Dumes holds a BS in finance (summa cum laude) from The College of New Jersey and an MBA with honors from The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She is a CFA charterholder. Location: New York