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Hedge Fund Solutions provides investors with flexibility with a suite of fundamental, systematic and multi-manager strategies, each targeting absolute return and delivering, differently.
We Deliver, Differently.
Alternatives at AB
We Deliver, Differently.
AB’s expansive and growing platform of public and private alternative investment solutions is designed to achieve diverse outcomes for investors. Global scale, financial stability and the quiet strength of one of the world’s largest asset managers: we’re putting it to work…to make a difference for you.
196
Alternative Investment Professionals
$85B
Alternative AUM1
40+
Years Managing Alternative Investments
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Partnership Culture
Our alternatives teams are committed to a candid, insight-rich and constructive process focused intently on client outcomes. For over 35 years, AB’s collaborative, selfless culture has taken partnership to a different level— with clients and across our investment teams. We’re always on task delivering —no matter the noise.
Versatile Platform
AB’s versatile alternatives platform is built for investment reality and long-term relationships, because markets evolve and objectives change. Our unique spectrum of sophisticated, distinctive strategies—hedge fund solutions and private alternatives—is designed to deliver differently and solve for a continuous stream of new challenges.
Big-Firm Experience
The integrity and operational performance of AB’s alternatives solutions stand on the firm’s global scale, financial stability and quiet strength at every stage of the investment lifecycle. As one of the world’s largest asset managers, with decades of experience, we’ll continue delivering alternatives differently for clients ranging from individual investors to the most sophisticated institutions.
Featured Products
AB CarVal Credit Opportunities Fund
Our Platform
Our Platform
AB’s distinctive hedge-fund and private-market alternatives offer novel ways to achieve income, absolute return or opportunistic goals through accessible structures suited to institutions, wealth advisors and individual investors.
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Private Alternatives
AB’s versatile private alternatives platform is built to serve long-term relationships as markets evolve and objectives change. Our sophisticated, credit-focused strategies and independent manager structure offer choice, differentiated sourcing and decision-making.
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Corporate Direct Lending
We provide flexible financing across the core mid-market, focusing on companies with strong credit profiles and recurring revenue. Target sectors include digital infrastructure, healthcare (including healthcare IT), software and recurring business and residential services. Our capabilities include direct lending, fund and manager finance and intermediate capital solutions. We also pursue minority private equity opportunities.
Asset-Based Finance
We invest in asset-based credit backed by cash-flowing, real-economy assets. Our strategy targets uncorrelated, risk-adjusted returns through innovative credit structures. Investments span consumer and specialty finance, residential mortgages and commercial real estate loans. We also invest in aviation leasing and energy transition assets.
Commercial Real Estate Debt
We provide flexible capital for commercial real estate across the US and Europe. Our disciplined approach to sourcing, underwriting and asset management drives consistent returns. We invest across the capital structure, including senior, whole and mezzanine loans. We also offer value-add, core, core-plus and structured equity solutions.
Opportunistic Credit
We invest in dislocated, event-driven opportunities across global markets. Our strategy targets mispriced situations in leveraged or stressed companies. We invest across debt and equity securities, including bonds, loans, trade claims, CLOs, and credit default swaps. Our flexible approach enables us to capitalize across the capital structure.
Private Placements
We provide investment-grade private debt opportunities across global markets. Our team focuses on underwriting, restructuring and active portfolio management. We invest across secured and unsecured structures in corporate and infrastructure sectors. Our approach emphasizes credit quality and stable income.
Hedge Fund Solutions
AB’s Hedge Fund Solutions leverages the global strength of AB in sourcing best-in-class managers. Developing proprietary quantitative tools and applying advanced AI-driven analytics, the managers offer public-market investors a suite of style-specific liquid portfolios built to capitalize on idiosyncratic return streams.
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Fundamental Strategies
Established in 2009, Ab's fundamental alternatives strategies, managed by speacialized teams, capture alpha from equities, targeting absolute return with low net market exposure to mininmize correlation to traditional asset classes.
- Equity Market Neutral Multi-PM
- Equity Long/Short Sector Focused
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Systematic Strategies
More than 20 years of quantitative investing within AB's risk-management culture has produced a sophisticated platform of systematic and AI-enabled platform strategies to harvest returns in the form of hedge-fund risk premia.
- Relative Value/Non-Directional
- Merger Arbitrage
- Soft-Catalyst
- Global Macro
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Multi-Manager Strategies
Invested across diverse hedge-fund strategies, AB's multi-manager capabilities, established in 2012, focus on absolute return with minimal market beta. The investment teams prioritize captial preservation during periods of market stress.
- Relative Value/multi-Strategy
- Global Macro
- Credit Arbitrage
- Event Driven
- Equity Long/Short
More for You
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Alternative Credit Awards Winner
2025 Interval Fund of the Year
AB CarVal Credit Opportunities Fund
US Disclosure:
Alternative investments involve a high degree of risk and are designed for investors who understand and are willing to accept these risks.
There can be no assurance that any alternative investment strategy will achieve its investment objectives. A more detailed discussion of risk factors can be found in the applicable offering document(s), which you should read carefully before you decide to invest.
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