Responsible Investing:

Our Commitment

Responsibility Requires More Than Words

Our vision is to deliver better outcomes for our clients through rigorous responsible investing research, integration, stewardship and solutions.

AB employees are working to create a dynamic, diverse, inclusive and intellectually challenging environment. By bringing out the best in our people, we aim to help advance the many communities we serve.

10,800

Meetings with company management teams in 2023*

US $565

Billion in assets managed using ESG integration^

_{* Includes economic meetings with sovereign issuers, as of 31 December 2023.

^ As of 30 September 2024. Assets using ESG integration include active fixed income, equities, multi-asset and alternative strategies. Portfolios with Purpose are included in the integration total.}

Responsibility Throughout AB

To implement our responsibility strategy and measure its progress, we’ve created a structure that reflects our firm wide commitment to responsibility, from the Responsibility Steering Committee to ESG analysts and investors as well as the infrastructure that supports them.

AB Global Stewardship Report

People Driving AB’s Responsibility Strategy

Our teams help drive and guide our firm-wide efforts in advancing AB’s corporate responsibility practices and polices, implementing strategy and providing clients with responsible solutions and communication that meet their needs.

Responsibility Team

The team develops our firmwide approach to responsibility and collaborates with investors.

Responsibility Steering Committee

The committee of experts, from across the spectrum of asset management disciplines and shapes our approach.

Proxy Voting and Governance Committee

The committee has formal oversight of our proxy voting process, establishing our policy and overseeing voting activities.

Team Members

As of 30 September 2024

Team Members

Social Responsibility

Diverse and inclusive teams can generate better ideas and reach more balanced decisions. That’s why we seek to leverage the backgrounds of our employees to meet the needs of a broad range of clients and to best engage the communities in which we operate.

Building a Diverse Culture

We’re striving to cultivate a more diverse, inclusive workplace for everyone. All of our people should feel challenged, empowered and excited about building a career at AB.

Engaging Employees

An engaged and well workforce drives us forward. To strengthen the fabric of our firm, we encourage employees to celebrate what brings them together and what makes them unique.

Serving Our Communities

Responsibility to something bigger than ourselves: it’s the very meaning of community. Our firm and our people are striving to make a positive social impact through action.

Diversity Efforts at AB

Industry Involvement

Joined the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures Forum
Signatory to the UK Stewardship Code for the fourth year in a row

Joined the Access to Medicine Foundation as Signatory Investor
Joined the World Benchmarking Alliance as Investor Ally

Became a member of Sustainable Trading
Joined the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change
Joined the One Planet Sovereign Wealth Funds initiative
Joined the Net Zero Asset Managers initiative
Joined PRI Advance

Joined the Forum of Investors—Japan
Joined the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD) Consortium in Japan
Joined the Japanese Stewardship Initiative
Joined Ceres
Became founding member of the Corporate Affiliate Program at the Columbia Climate School
Became a member of Emerging Markets Investors Alliance

Joined the Asian Corporate Governance Association (ACGA)
Became a member of FAIRR
Became Investor Stewardship Group Principles signatory

Started climate change and investing initiative with the Earth Institute at Columbia University in New York
Became CII Corporate Governance Advisory Council Member
Joined Climate Disclosure Project
Published formal response to Japan Stewardship Code
Joined International Corporate Governance Network (ICGN)
Became PRI signatory
Joined CII

Source: AB as of 31 July 2024

Memberships

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Principles for Responsible Investment

AB has invested responsibly for many years. We became a signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) in 2011. This formalized our approach to identify responsible ways to unlock opportunities for our clients through ESG integration in most of our actively managed client accounts, funds and strategies.

Principles were developed by investors, for investors. We’re committed to implementing six principles as we continue to work towards our responsible investing efforts.

Reporting

AB is committed to being transparent and our RI Policies and Statements, Reports and Global Related Proxy and Governance Information can all be found on our Corporate website.

Data Disclosures giving a comprehensive breakdown of corporate performance, data and reporting disclosures can also be found on our Corporate website.

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