Responsible Investing:
Solutions
Our Capabilities
AB Responsible+ investment solutions invest with an additional responsibility/ESG focus.
Strategies fall into one of the following:
- China Net Zero Solutions
- Global Low Carbon Equity
Sustainable solutions focusing on issuers that address environmental or social factors, whether through their products, services or practices. Prominent themes include Climate, Health and Empowerment.
Includes some equity, fixed-income and multi-asset portfolios that invest in companies whose products and services contribute to achieving the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- Sustainable Climate Solutions
- Sustainable Global Thematic Equity
- Sustainable Global Thematic Credit
- Sustainable Income
- Sustainable Multi-Asset Solutions
- Sustainable Euro High Yield
Impact solutions aim to make a measurable social or environmental impact while generating a financial return.
Includes a fixed income strategy that invests in historically marginalised and low-socioeconomic-status communities throughout the US:
- Municipal Impact
Our Portfolios with Purpose
A strategy reflecting our conviction that asset managers have an important role to play in engaging with companies that are aiding the transition to a low carbon economy. The portfolio seeks to deliver a positive impact on climate change by investing in high quality, stable companies at attractive prices.
A diversified large-cap core equity portfolio with investments that are performing well or improving on dimensions of corporate responsibility, including carbon emissions, board effectiveness and board diversity.
A fixed income strategy that invests in historically marginalised and low-socioeconomic-status communities throughout the US. Each investment has a specific intention of reducing a societal disparity (e.g., education, health, clean water) between groups.
Seeks long-term growth of capital by investing in companies that are positively exposed to environmentally or socially-oriented sustainable investment themes derived from the SDGs.
Seeks capital preservation and current income through investment in issuers that are positively exposed to environmentally or socially-oriented investment themes derived from the SDGs.
Invests in US-domiciled companies that are positively exposed to environmentally and socially-oriented sustainable investment themes derived from the SDGs.
Seeks financial returns through investment in US-domiciled companies that are positively exposed to environmentally or socially-orientated investment themes derived from the SDGs.
Seeks attractive, long-term total returns by investing across a broad universe of global fixed income, global equities and non-traditional assets positively exposed to environmentally or socially-oriented investment themes derived from the SGDs.
Seeks to achieve long-term capital growth by investing in a global universe of companies that are positively exposed to climate solutions derived from the SDGs.
Seeks financial returns through investment in global companies that are positively exposed to environmentally or socially-orientated investment themes derived from the SDGs.
Ratings and Classifications
Based on star scores, five of our module scores were above the industry median, seven were in line with the industry median, and four were below the industry median Please refer to AB’s 2022 PRI Assessment Report. The 2023 PRI Assessment Methodology can be found here.
Awarded Label ISR2 in April 2022 for Sustainable Global Thematic and Sustainable US Thematic Portfolios.