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Business Description and Organization
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2025
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Business Description and Organization Business Description and Organization
We provide diversified investment management and related services globally to a broad range of clients. Our principal services include:
Institutional Services—servicing our institutional clients, including private and public pension plans, foundations and endowments, insurance companies, central banks and governments worldwide, and affiliates such as Equitable Holdings, Inc. ("EQH") and its subsidiaries, by means of separately managed accounts, sub-advisory relationships, structured products, collective investment trusts, mutual funds, hedge funds and other investment vehicles.
Retail Services—servicing our retail clients, primarily by means of retail mutual funds sponsored by AB or an affiliated company, sub-advisory relationships with mutual funds sponsored by third parties, separately managed account programs sponsored by financial intermediaries worldwide and other investment vehicles.
Private Wealth Management Services—servicing our private clients, including high-net-worth individuals and families, trusts and estates, charitable foundations, partnerships, private and family corporations, and other entities, by means of separately managed accounts, hedge funds, mutual funds and other investment vehicles.
We also provide distribution, shareholder servicing, transfer agency services and administrative services to the mutual funds we sponsor.
Our high-quality, in-depth research is the foundation of our asset management and private wealth management businesses. Our research disciplines include economic, equity, fixed income and quantitative research. In addition, we have expertise in multi-asset strategies, wealth management, environmental, social and corporate governance ("ESG"), and alternative investments.
We provide a broad range of investment services with expertise in:
Equities, including actively managed strategies across global and regional markets and capitalization ranges, spanning growth, value, core, defensive, thematic, and sustainable approaches, with varying degrees of active risk, concentration, and benchmark sensitivity;
Fixed Income, including actively managed traditional and unconstrained strategies across taxable and tax-exempt markets, encompassing government, corporate, securitized, emerging market, and municipal securities, with a focus on income generation, risk management, liquidity, and diversification;
Multi-Asset Solutions, including outcome-oriented and asset-allocation strategies such as target-date, target-risk, income, and total-return portfolios, as well as customized multi-asset solutions designed to meet specific client objectives;
Hedge Fund Strategies, including fundamental and systematic hedge funds, equity market neutral, event-driven, macro, and fund-of-funds strategies, focused on delivering diversified, idiosyncratic return streams with controlled market exposure;
Private Alternatives, including private credit, asset-based finance, real assets, real estate debt, and specialty finance strategies, where returns are driven by underwriting discipline, structure, selectivity, and active portfolio management rather than public market beta; and
Systematic Strategies, including alpha-seeking and risk-controlled approaches that apply quantitative research, data-driven signals, and disciplined portfolio construction across equity and fixed income markets, as well as passive index, ESG index, and enhanced index solutions designed to provide efficient market exposure.
Organization
AllianceBernstein Corporation (an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of EQH, “General Partner”) is the general partner of both AllianceBernstein Holding L.P. (“AB Holding”) and AB. AllianceBernstein Corporation owns 100,000 general partnership units in AB Holding and a 1.0% general partnership interest in AB.
As of December 31, 2025, the ownership structure of AB, including limited partnership units outstanding as well as the general partner's 1.0% interest, was as follows:
EQH and its subsidiaries68.2%
AB Holding31.1 
Unaffiliated holders0.7 
100.0%
EQH Exchange
On July 10, 2025, AB entered into an amended and restated Exchange Agreement (the “Amended Exchange Agreement”) with EQH to increase the AB Units that remain available for exchange from 4,788,806 AB Units to 19,682,946 AB Units. At the time the Amended Exchange Agreement was entered into, AB issued and exchanged 19,682,946 AB Units for an equal number of AB Holding Units held by EQH. The acquired AB Holding Units from the exchange were retired, along with an equal number of AB Units. Following the exchange, the Amended Exchange Agreement was terminated. For further discussion, see Note 20 Units Outstanding.
After giving effect to such exchange and related retirements, including both the general partnership and limited partnership interest in AB Holding and AB, EQH has an approximate 68.3% economic interest in AB as of December 31, 2025.