Responsible Investing:

Solutions

Solutions

Responsible investing is a personal journey. Clients may have different environmental and social priorities, and preferences for different investment approaches. To try to meet this need, we offer a variety of solutions in our dedicated responsible investing platform: Portfolios with Purpose.  This platform offers investors a diverse range of solutions that aim to achieve financial objectives with an ESG focus.

Investors can choose from a range of strategies across a variety of different asset classes, with diverse sector exposures and performance patterns that are suitable for different market environments.

Our Portfolios with Purpose currently span three different product ranges. These include our Sustainable Portfolios, which invest in issuers addressing environmental or social challenges through their products, services, or practices. Responsible+ Portfolios which have an additional responsibly focus, such as climate resilience or best-in-class allocations. And Impact Portfolios that seek to provide a positive, measurable impact on society or the environment.

Our Capabilities

Responsible+

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

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

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

Not all the strategies or products we offer are available and /or registered for distribution in all jurisdictions. For more information about product availability please contact your AB representative. 

Our Portfolios with Purpose

AB Global Low Carbon Equity Strategy

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.

AB Responsible US Equity Strategy

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.

AB Municipal Impact Strategy

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.

AB Sustainable Global Thematic Portfolio

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.

AB Sustainable Global Thematic Credit Portfolio

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.

AB Sustainable US Thematic Portfolio

Invests in US-domiciled companies that are positively exposed to environmentally and socially-oriented sustainable investment themes derived from the SDGs.

AB Sustainable All Market Portfolio

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.

AB Sustainable Climate Solutions Portfolio

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.

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.

More information on our Sustainable Solutions is available here.

Ratings and Classifications

Principles for Responsible Investment logo

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.

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Awarded Label ISR2 in April 2022 for Sustainable Global Thematic and Sustainable US Thematic Portfolios.

1. PRI: UN Principles for Responsible Investment. See the PRI Transparency Report and the PRI Assessment Report to learn more.
2. Label ISR recognises the AB SICAV I - Sustainable Global Thematic Portfolio and Sustainable US Thematic Portfolios valid 28.04.2022 – 27.04.2025.