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Past performance does not guarantee future results.
Left display through July 29, 2021; right display through July 18, 2021
*TSA passenger throughput is based on the number of passengers crossing through the Transportation Security Administration’s checkpoints at US airports.
†RevPAR is the total room revenue divided by the total number of available rooms. Chart compares RevPAR in 2021 with the corresponding week in 2019 to account for the seasonality of travel trends. Europe includes the UK, France, Italy, Germany and Spain. Asia (ex China) includes Japan, South Korea and Singapore.
Source: Morgan Stanley, STR, US Transportation Security Administration and AllianceBernstein (AB)
Past performance does not guarantee future results.
Through July 31, 2021
Vacation topic is defined as vacation-related searches corrected for misspellings or other variations such as searches for “holidays.” Numbers represent search interest relative to the highest point on the chart for the given region and time. A value of 100 is the peak popularity for the term. A value of 50 means that the term is half as popular. A score of 0 means there was not enough data for this term.
Source: Google Trends
The views expressed herein do not constitute research, investment advice or trade recommendations and do not necessarily represent the views of all AB portfolio-management teams. Views are subject to revision over time.
References to specific securities are presented to illustrate the application of our investment philosophy only and are not to be considered recommendations by AB. The specific securities identified and described do not represent all of the securities purchased, sold or recommended for the portfolio, and it should not be assumed that investments in the securities identified were or will be profitable.
James T. Tierney, Jr. is Chief Investment Officer of Concentrated US Growth. Prior to joining AB in December 2013, he was CIO at W.P. Stewart & Co. Tierney began his career in 1988 in equity research at J.P. Morgan Investment Management, where he analyzed entertainment, healthcare and finance companies. He left J.P. Morgan in 1990 to pursue an MBA and returned in 1992 as a senior analyst covering energy, transportation, media and entertainment. Tierney joined W.P. Stewart in 2000. He holds a BS in finance from Providence College and an MBA from Columbia Business School at Columbia University. Location: New York
Dev Chakrabarti is a Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer for Concentrated Global Growth. Prior to joining AB in December 2013, he was a portfolio manager/analyst on the global equity research and portfolio-management team at WPS Advisors. Chakrabarti joined W.P. Stewart in 2005 as a member of the European equity research and portfolio-management team and moved to New York in 2008 to focus on global portfolios. Earlier in his career, he worked as an M&A analyst at Merrill Lynch, a financial analyst at Unilever and an equity analyst at J.P. Morgan Securities, where he specialized in European technology stocks. Chakrabarti holds a BSc (Hons) in economics from the University of Bristol and an MSc in finance from London Business School. Location: London
Jonathan Berkow is a Senior Vice President and the Director of Quantitative Research and Data Science in the Equities division at AB. He leads the research and adoption of alternative data in equity research and systematic strategies. Prior to joining the firm in 2018, Berkow was a systematic portfolio manager and researcher at hedge funds Element Capital Management and Kepos Capital. He started his career at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, where he managed quantitative research and was a portfolio manager for global equity portfolios. Berkow's research has spanned equities and macro asset classes. He holds a BS in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Location: New York
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