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AllianceBernstein Value Fund
ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN VALUE FUND
INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
The Fund’s investment objective is long-term growth of capital.
FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the Fund. You may qualify for sales charge reductions if you and members of your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $100,000 in AllianceBernstein Mutual Funds. More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial intermediary and in Investing in the Funds--Sales Charge Reduction Programs for Class A Shares on page 56 of this Prospectus and in Purchase of Shares--Sales Charge Reduction Programs for Class A Shares on page 113 of the Funds’ Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”).
SHAREHOLDER FEES (fees paid directly from your investment)
Shareholder Fees AllianceBernstein Value Fund (USD $)
CLASS A SHARES
CLASS B SHARES
CLASS C SHARES
ADVISOR CLASS SHARES
CLASS R SHARES
CLASS K SHARES
CLASS I SHARES
Shareholder Fees Column [Text]   (NOT CURRENTLY OFFERED TO NEW INVESTORS)          
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price) 4.25% none none none none none none
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a percentage of offering price or redemption proceeds, whichever is lower) none [1] 4.00% [2] 1.00% [3] none none none none
Exchange Fee none none none none none none none
[1] Purchases of Class A shares in amounts of $1,000,000 or more, or by certain group retirement plans, may be subject to a 1%, 1-year contingent deferred sales charge, or CDSC, which may be subject to waiver in certain circumstances.
[2] Class B shares automatically convert to Class A shares after eight years. The CDSC decreases over time. For Class B shares the CDSC decreases 1.00% annually to 0% after the fourth year.
[3] For Class C shares, the CDSC is 0% after the first year.
ANNUAL FUND OPERATING EXPENSES (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage
of the value of your investment)
Annual Fund Operating Expenses AllianceBernstein Value Fund
CLASS A
CLASS B
CLASS C
ADVISOR CLASS
CLASS R
CLASS K
CLASS I
Management Fees 0.55% 0.55% 0.55% 0.55% 0.55% 0.55% 0.55%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees 0.30% 1.00% 1.00% none 0.50% 0.25% none
Other Expenses: Transfer Agent 0.11% 0.14% 0.11% 0.11% 0.26% 0.20% 0.02%
Other Expenses 0.11% 0.12% 0.12% 0.11% 0.11% 0.11% 0.11%
Total Other Expenses 0.22% 0.26% 0.23% 0.22% 0.37% 0.31% 0.13%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses 1.07% 1.81% 1.78% 0.77% 1.42% 1.11% 0.68%
EXAMPLES
The Examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Examples assume that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Examples also assume that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund’s operating expenses stay the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Expense Example AllianceBernstein Value Fund (USD $)
CLASS A
CLASS B
CLASS C
ADVISOR CLASS
CLASS R
CLASS K
CLASS I
After 1 Year 529 584 281 79 145 113 69
After 3 Years 751 769 560 246 449 353 218
After 5 Years 990 980 964 428 776 612 379
After 10 Years 1,675 1,932 2,095 954 1,702 1,352 847
For the share classes listed below, you would pay the following expenses if you did not redeem your shares at the end of the period:
Expense Example, No Redemption AllianceBernstein Value Fund (USD $)
CLASS B
CLASS C
After 1 Year 184 181
After 3 Years 569 560
After 5 Years 980 964
After 10 Years 1,932 2,095
PORTFOLIO TURNOVER
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys or sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These transaction costs, which are not reflected in the Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the Examples, affect the Fund’s performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund’s portfolio turnover rate was 55% of the average value of its portfolio.
PRINCIPAL STRATEGIES
The Fund invests primarily in a diversified portfolio of equity securities of U.S. companies with relatively large market capitalizations that the Adviser believes are undervalued. The Fund invests in companies that are determined by the Adviser to be undervalued using the fundamental value approach of the Adviser. The fundamental value approach seeks to identify a universe of securities that are considered to be undervalued because they are attractively priced relative to their future earnings power and dividend-paying capability.

In selecting securities for the Fund’s portfolio, the Adviser uses its fundamental and quantitative research to identify companies whose long-term earnings power and dividend-paying capability are not reflected in the current market price of their securities.

The Adviser’s fundamental analysis depends heavily upon its internal research staff. The research staff of company and industry analysts covers a research universe that includes the majority of the capitalization of the Russell 1000(TM) Value Index. The Adviser typically projects a company’s financial performance over a full economic cycle, including a trough and a peak, within the context of forecasts for real economic growth, inflation and interest rate changes. The research staff focuses on the valuation implied by the current price, relative to the earnings the company will be generating five years from now, or “normalized” earnings, assuming average mid-economic cycle growth for the fifth year.

The Fund’s management team and other senior investment professionals work in close collaboration to weigh each investment opportunity identified by the research staff relative to the entire portfolio and determine the timing and position size for purchases and sales. Analysts remain responsible for monitoring new developments that would affect the securities they cover.

The team will generally sell a security when it no longer meets appropriate valuation criteria, although sales may be delayed when positive return trends are favorable.

The Fund may enter into derivatives transactions, such as options, futures contracts, forwards, and swaps. The Fund may use options strategies involving the purchase and/or writing of various combinations of call and/or put options, including on individual securities and stock indices, futures contracts (including futures contracts on individual securities and stock indices) or shares of exchange-traded funds (“ETFs”). These transactions may be used, for example, in an effort to earn extra income, to adjust exposure to individual securities or markets, or to protect all or a portion of the Fund’s portfolio from a decline in value, sometimes within certain ranges.

The Fund may, at times, invest in shares of ETFs in lieu of making direct investments in equity securities. ETFs may provide more efficient and economical exposure to the type of companies and geographic locations in which the Fund seeks to invest than direct investments.
PRINCIPAL RISKS
  • MARKET RISK: The value of the Fund’s investments will fluctuate as the stock or bond market fluctuates. The value of its investments may decline, sometimes rapidly and unpredictably, simply because of economic changes or other events that affect large portions of the market. It includes the risk that a particular style of investing, such as the Fund’s value approach, may be underperforming the market generally.
  • FOREIGN (NON-U.S.) RISK: Investments in securities of non-U.S. issuers may involve more risk than those of U.S. issuers. These securities may fluctuate more widely in price and may be less liquid due to adverse market, economic, political, regulatory or other factors.
  • CURRENCY RISK: Fluctuations in currency exchange rates may negatively affect the value of the Fund’s investments or reduce its returns.
  • DERIVATIVES RISK: Derivatives may be illiquid, difficult to price, and leveraged so that small changes may produce disproportionate losses for the Fund, and may be subject to counterparty risk to a greater degree than more traditional investments.
  • MANAGEMENT RISK: The Fund is subject to management risk because it is an actively-managed investment fund. The Adviser will apply its investment techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for the Fund, but there is no guarantee that its techniques will produce the intended results.
As with all investments, you may lose money by investing in the Fund.
BAR CHART AND PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
The bar chart and performance information provide an indication of the historical risk of an investment in the Fund by showing:
  • how the Fund’s performance changed from year to year over ten years; and
  • how the Fund’s average annual returns for one, five and ten years compare to those of a broad-based securities market index.
You may obtain updated performance information on the Fund’s website at www.AllianceBernstein.com (click on “Individuals--U.S.” then “Products & Performance”).

The Fund’s past performance before and after taxes, of course, does not necessarily indicate how it will perform in the future.
BAR CHART
The annual returns in the bar chart are for the Fund’s Class A shares and do not reflect sales loads. If sales loads were reflected, returns would be less than those shown.
Bar Chart
Calendar Year End (%)

During the period shown in the bar chart, the Fund’s:

BEST QUARTER WAS UP 18.19%, 3RD QUARTER, 2009; AND WORST QUARTER WAS
DOWN -22.16%, 4TH QUARTER, 2008.
PERFORMANCE TABLE
AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS

(For the periods ended December 31, 2013)
Average Annual Total Returns AllianceBernstein Value Fund
1 YEAR
5 YEARS
10 YEARS
INCEPTION DATE
CLASS A
[1] 29.97% 13.71% 4.33%  
CLASS A Return After Taxes on Distributions
[1] 29.63% 13.45% 3.78%  
CLASS A Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares
[1] 17.20% 11.03% 3.55%  
CLASS B
31.71% 14.60% 4.60%  
CLASS C
33.72% 13.83% 4.01%  
ADVISOR CLASS
36.11% 15.02% 5.09%  
CLASS R
35.14% 14.31% 4.45%  
CLASS K
[2] 35.65% 14.65% 4.80% Mar. 01, 2005
CLASS I
[2] 36.19% 15.13% 5.15% Mar. 01, 2005
Russell 1000(TM) Value Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)
32.53% 16.67% 7.58%  
[1] After-tax returns: -Are shown for Class A shares only and will vary for Class B, Class C and Advisor Class shares because these Classes have different expense ratios; -Are estimates based on the highest historical individual federal marginal income tax rates, and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes; actual after-tax returns depend on an individual investor's tax situation and are likely to differ from those shown; and -Are not relevant to investors who hold fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts.
[2] Inception dates: 3/1/05 for Class K and Class I shares. Performance information for periods prior to the inception of Class K and Class I shares is the performance of the Fund’s Class A shares adjusted to reflect the higher expense ratio of Class K shares and the lower expense ratio of Class I shares, respectively.