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Alternatives.
We Deliver, Differently.

Our platform brings together the power of alternatives into the mainstream of your investment strategy. A committed partnership culture, a versatile cross-asset platform of distinctive alternative strategies and big-firm strength-to deliver solutions, differently, for every investor.

Delivering a Full-Service Experience

Founded in 1967, AB is a leading full-service asset management company with global AUM of $785 billion. 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. We combine research-driven expertise, a track record of investing in alternative assets, and the reach of a seasoned global asset management group.

172
Alternative investment professionals
$75.8 Billion
Of alternative assets under management (AUM)
40+
Years of managing alternative investments

Source: AllianceBernstein as of 31 March 2025.

A Platform Built on Partnerships

Our alternatives offering is built on partnerships. Our professional teams, located across 13 offices globally, are committed to a candid, insight-rich and constructive process focused intently on client outcomes. For over 40 years, AB’s collaborative, selfless culture has taken partnership to a different level—with clients and across our investment teams.

Accessing the alternatives opportunity should be as seamless and intuitive as investing in traditional assets. Our versatile alternatives platform is a gateway to new opportunities that was built for today’s markets. It allows clients to adapt to changing conditions and their own evolving strategic objectives. We're always on task delivering—no matter the noise.

An Array of Alternatives for Diverse Challenges 

AB’s versatile alternatives platform is built for investment reality and long-term relationships, because markets evolve and objectives change. Our differentiated spectrum of sophisticated, distinctive strategies—hedge-fund solutions and private alternatives—are designed to deliver differently…and solve for a continuous stream of new challenges.

At AB, we see alternatives as a key solution to contemporary investing challenges. Across our strategies, we use best-in-class managers, proprietary investment tools, and AI-driven analytics so we are able to deliver better outcomes for clients.

 

Alternative Strategies

Private Alternatives

Our private alternatives solutions deliver differently, with one of the most diversified credit platforms in the industry and access to proven managers with deep sector experience. Our range of private alternatives are highly diversified, offering opportunities in a wide range of underlying assets and investment structures:

 
Asset Based Finance & Opportunistic Credit
  • Specialty Finance
  • Energy Transition Financing
  • Aviation Leasing
  • Opportunistic Credit

 

Corporate Direct Lending
  • Middle Market Corporate Direct Lending 
  • NAV Lending
  • Intermediate Capital Solutions 
  • Minority Private Equity 
 
Commercial Real Estate Debt
  • Value-Add Loans
  • Core and Core-Plus Loans 
  • Senior/Whole Loans
  • Mezzanine Loans
  • Preferred/Structured Equity 
 
Private Placements
  • Investment-Grade Private Debt 
  • Secured and Unsecured
  • Corporate and Infrastructure 
Public Alternatives

Our public alternatives platform 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 suit of style-specific liquid portfolios build to capitalize on idiosyncratic return streams. Specific techniques and opportunities targeted include: 

 
Fundamental Strategies 
  • Equity Market Neutral Multi-PM
  • Equity Long/Short Sector Focused 
 
Systematic Strategies
  • Relative Value/Non-Directional
  • Merger Arbitrage
  • Soft Catalyst 
  • Global Macro
 
Multi-Manager Strategies  
  • Relative Value/Multi-Strategy 
  • Global Macro
  • Credit Arbitrage 
  • Event Driven
  • Equity Long/Short 

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.

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