AB International Value Fund

AB INTERNATIONAL 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 AB 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 67 of this Prospectus, in Appendix B--Financial Intermediary Waivers of this Prospectus and in Purchase of Shares--Sales Charge Reduction Programs for Class A Shares on page 132 of the Fund’s Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”).

You may be required to pay commissions and/or other forms of compensation to a broker for transactions in Advisor Class shares, which are not reflected in the tables or the examples below.

SHAREHOLDER FEES (fees paid directly from your investment)

Shareholder Fees - AB International Value Fund	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

ANNUAL FUND OPERATING EXPENSES (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

Annual Fund Operating Expenses - AB International Value Fund	CLASS A	CLASS B	CLASS C	ADVISOR CLASS	CLASS R	CLASS K	CLASS I
Management Fees	0.75%	0.75%	0.75%	0.75%	0.75%	0.75%	0.75%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees	0.25%	1.00%	1.00%	none	0.50%	0.25%	none
Other Expenses: Transfer Agent	0.21%	0.27%	0.22%	0.21%	0.26%	0.20%	0.02%
Other Expenses	0.22%	0.22%	0.21%	0.22%	0.22%	0.22%	0.22%
Total Other Expenses	0.43%	0.49%	0.43%	0.43%	0.48%	0.42%	0.24%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses	1.43%	2.24%	2.18%	1.18%	1.73%	1.42%	0.99%

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 - AB International Value Fund - USD ($)	CLASS A	CLASS B	CLASS C	ADVISOR CLASS	CLASS R	CLASS K	CLASS I
After 1 Year	$ 564	$ 627	$ 321	$ 120	$ 176	$ 145	$ 101
After 3 Years	858	900	682	375	545	449	315
After 5 Years	1,173	1,200	1,169	649	939	776	547
After 10 Years	$ 2,065	$ 2,371	$ 2,513	$ 1,432	$ 2,041	$ 1,702	$ 1,213

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 - AB International Value Fund - USD ($)	CLASS B	CLASS C
After 1 Year	$ 227	$ 221
After 3 Years	700	682
After 5 Years	1,200	1,169
After 10 Years	$ 2,371	$ 2,513

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 34% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL STRATEGIES

The Fund invests primarily in a diversified portfolio of equity securities of established companies selected from more than 40 industries and more than 40 developed and emerging market countries. These countries currently include the developed nations in Europe and the Far East, Canada, Australia and emerging market countries worldwide. Under normal market conditions, the Fund invests significantly (at least 40%--unless market conditions are not deemed favorable by the Adviser) in securities of non-U.S. companies. In addition, the Fund invests, under normal circumstances, in the equity securities of companies located in at least three countries.

The Fund invests in companies that are determined by the Adviser to be undervalued, using a fundamental value approach. In selecting securities for the Fund’s portfolio, the Adviser uses its fundamental and quantitative research to identify companies whose stocks are priced low in relation to their perceived long-term earnings power.

The Adviser’s fundamental analysis depends heavily upon its large internal research staff. The research staff begins with a global research universe of international and emerging market companies. Teams within the research staff cover a given industry worldwide to better understand each company’s competitive position in a global context. 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 Adviser 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.

Currencies can have a dramatic impact on equity returns, significantly adding to returns in some years and greatly diminishing them in others. The Adviser evaluates currency and equity positions separately and may seek to hedge the currency exposure resulting from securities positions when it finds the currency exposure unattractive. To hedge a portion of its currency risk, the Fund may from time to time invest in currency-related derivatives, including forward currency exchange contracts, futures contracts, options on futures contracts, swaps and options. The Adviser may also seek investment opportunities by taking long or short positions in currencies through the use of currency-related derivatives.

The Fund may enter into other 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. The Fund may invest in depositary receipts, instruments of supranational entities denominated in the currency of any country, securities of multinational companies and “semi-governmental securities”, and enter into forward commitments.

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 more difficult to trade or dispose of due to adverse market, economic, political, regulatory or other factors.

• EMERGING MARKET RISK: Investments in emerging market countries may have more risk because the markets are less developed and less liquid as well as being subject to increased economic, political, regulatory or other uncertainties.

• 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 difficult to price or unwind and leveraged so that small changes may produce disproportionate losses for the Fund. Derivatives may also be subject to counterparty risk to a greater degree than more traditional investments.

• LEVERAGE RISK: When the Fund borrows money or otherwise leverages its portfolio, it may be more volatile because leverage tends to exaggerate the effect of any increase or decrease in the value of the Fund’s investments. The Fund may create leverage through the use of reverse repurchase agreements, forward commitments, or by borrowing money.

• 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.abfunds.com (click on “Investments--Mutual Funds”).

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.

Calendar Year End (%)

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

BEST QUARTER WAS UP 26.75%, 2ND QUARTER, 2009; AND WORST QUARTER WAS DOWN -23.89%, 3RD QUARTER, 2011.

PERFORMANCE TABLE<br/> AVERAGE ANNUAL TOTAL RETURNS<br/><br/> (For the periods ended December 31, 2018)

Average Annual Total Returns - AB International Value Fund		1 YEAR	5 YEARS	10 YEARS
CLASS A	[1]	(26.44%)	(2.73%)	3.00%
CLASS A | Return After Taxes on Distributions	[1]	(26.32%)	(2.92%)	2.67%
CLASS A | Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares	[1]	(15.46%)	(1.91%)	2.60%
CLASS B		(26.87%)	(2.65%)	2.82%
CLASS C		(24.55%)	(2.61%)	2.70%
ADVISOR CLASS		(23.04%)	(1.62%)	3.75%
CLASS R		(23.46%)	(2.14%)	3.22%
CLASS K		(23.23%)	(1.82%)	3.54%
CLASS I		(22.85%)	(1.40%)	3.97%
MSCI EAFE Index (net) (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or taxes except the reinvestment of dividends net of U.S. withholding taxes)		(13.79%)	0.53%	6.32%

[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. Class C shares automatically convert to Class A shares after ten years.

[1] After-tax returns: -Are shown for Class A shares only and will vary for the other Classes of 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.