Published 04-24-23
Submitted by AllianceBernstein
Ahead of Earth Day 2023, AllianceBernstein’s (AB) Chief Responsibility Officer, Erin Bigley and Director of Environmental Research & Engagement, Sara Rosner highlight our continued collaboration with the Columbia Climate School and AB's recent announcement unveiling the Natural Hazards Index Tool in partnership with the National Center of Disaster Preparedness. This tool features an interactive, publicly available dashboard examining climate risk. It helps our investors better understand natural hazards (i.e. physical climate risk) by mapping out risk data based on 14 layers of risk types, like hurricanes, floods and extreme heat, for example.
We’ve been partnering with Columbia for almost four years. In September 2019, we launched the Climate Risk and Investment Research curriculum for Investment teams. This series of climate change training modules—which focuses on enhancing investors’ ability to integrate climate change considerations into their decision-making and investment processes—has been delivered to more than 1000 clients and prospects globally. We are now working on the second iteration of the Climate Academy, which dives into some of the current climate challenges, like global food security, carbon offsets and emerging economies.
At AB, we believe that climate change can present material investment risks and opportunities. We incorporate material ESG risks and opportunities into our investment process for most of our actively managed strategies, with the ultimate goal of improving client outcomes.
Learn more about AB’s approach to responsibility here.
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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