By Kevin Kruse - Contributor, CEO of LEADx and author of Great Leaders Have No Rules.
Published 04-18-22
Submitted by AllianceBernstein
Originally published on January 11, 2022 by Forbes
Some problems are daunting, but if solved they generate a huge return. For example, how can you scale inclusive behaviors? How can you combat the Great Resignation? Is it possible diversity initiatives can actually help you to land new clients? AllianceBernstein, more commonly known as “AB,” is solving those challenges.
AB is a leading global investment management firm with over $740 billion in assets under management. They offer a wide variety of investment services to everyone from institutional investors to individuals and private wealth clients in 26 different countries. With approximately 4,000 employees, including 900 people managers, spread across 51 locations AB has had to learn how to operationalize its diversity and inclusion strategy at scale.
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Originally published on January 11, 2022 by Forbes
AllianceBernstein (AB) is a leading global investment management firm that offers diversified investment services to institutional investors, individuals, and private wealth clients in major world markets.
To be effective stewards of our clients’ assets, we strive to invest responsibly—assessing, engaging on and integrating material issues, including environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations into most of our actively managed strategies (approximately 79% of AB’s actively managed assets under management as of December 31, 2024).
Our purpose—to pursue insight that unlocks opportunity—describes the ethos of our firm. Because we are an active investment manager, differentiated insights drive our ability to design innovative investment solutions and help our clients achieve their investment goals. We became a signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) in 2011. This began our journey to formalize our approach to identifying responsible ways to unlock opportunities for our clients through integrating material ESG factors throughout most of our actively managed equity and fixed-income client accounts, funds and strategies. Material ESG factors are important elements in forming insights and in presenting potential risks and opportunities that can affect the performance of the companies and issuers that we invest in and the portfolios that we build. AB also engages issuers when it believes the engagement is in the best financial interest of its clients.
Our values illustrate the behaviors and actions that create our strong culture and enable us to meet our clients' needs. Each value inspires us to be better:
As of December 31, 2024, AB had $792B in assets under management, $555B of which were ESG-integrated. Additional information about AB may be found on our website, www.alliancebernstein.com.
Learn more about AB’s approach to responsibility here.
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