SUMMARY PROSPECTUS    March 1, 2010

AllianceBernstein Balanced Shares

Ticker: Class A–CABNX; Class B–CABBX; Class C–CBACX; Advisor Class–CBSYX

Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund’s Prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its risks. The Fund’s Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”), both dated March 1, 2010, are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus. For free paper or electronic copies of the Fund’s Prospectus and other information about the Fund, go to http://www.alliancebernstein.com/links/mf, email a request to prorequest@alliancebernstein.com, call (800) 227-4618, or ask any financial advisor, bank, or broker-dealer who offers shares of the Fund. Unless otherwise noted, page number references refer to the current Prospectus for this Fund.

INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE

The Fund’s investment objective is total return consistent with reasonable risks through a combination of income and 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 on page 49 of the Prospectus and in Purchase of Shares—Sales Charge Reduction Programs on page 125 of the Funds’ SAI.

Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)

	Class A Shares	Class B Shares (not currently offered to new investors)	Class C Shares	Advisor Class Shares
Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price)	4.25%	None	None	None
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a percentage of offering price or redemption proceeds, whichever is lower)	None	4.00%*	1.00%**	None
Exchange Fee	None	None	None	None

Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)

	Class A	Class B	Class C	Advisor Class
Management Fees	.48%	.48%	.48%	.48%
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees	.29%	1.00%	1.00%	None
Other Expenses:
Transfer Agent	.21%	.27%	.23%	.21%
Other Expenses	.10%	.10%	.10%	.10%
Total Other Expenses	.31%	.37%	.33%	.31%
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses	1.08%	1.85%	1.81%	.79%

* 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.

** For Class C shares, the CDSC is 0% after the first year.

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 as reflected in the Examples would be:

	Class A		Class B		Class C		Advisor Class
After 1 Year	$	530	$	588	$	284	$	81
After 3 Years	$	754	$	782	$	569	$	252
After 5 Years	$	995	$	1,001	$	980	$	439
After 10 Years	$	1,686	$	1,968	$	2,127	$	978

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You would pay the following expenses if you did not redeem your shares at the end of the period:

	Class A		Class B		Class C		Advisor Class
After 1 Year	$	530	$	188	$	184	$	81
After 3 Years	$	754	$	582	$	569	$	252
After 5 Years	$	995	$	1,001	$	980	$	439
After 10 Years	$	1,686	$	1,968	$	2,127	$	978

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 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 111% of the average value of its portfolio.

PRINCIPAL STRATEGIES

The Fund invests in a diversified portfolio of equity and fixed-income securities, including U.S. Government and corporate fixed-income securities. The percentage of the Fund’s assets invested in each type of security will vary. Normally, the Fund’s investments will consist of about 60% in stocks, but these securities may comprise up to 75% of its investments. Normally, the Fund’s investments will consist of about 40% in fixed-income securities, but these securities may comprise up to 60% of its investments. The Fund will not purchase a security if as a result less than 25% of its total assets will be in fixed-income securities. The Fund may invest up to 20% of its assets in high yield securities (securities rated below BBB- by Standard & Poor’s Rating Services (“S&P”), Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. (“Moody’s”), or Fitch Ratings (“Fitch”)). As an operating policy, the Fund will invest no more than 5% of its assets in securities rated CCC- or below.

The Adviser depends heavily upon the fundamental analysis and research of its large internal research staff in making investment decisions for the Fund. The research staff follows a primary research universe of approximately 500 largely U.S. companies. In determining a company’s intrinsic economic value, the Adviser takes into account many fundamental and financial factors that it believes bear on the ability of the company to perform in the future, including earnings growth, prospective cash flows, dividend growth and growth in book value. The Adviser then ranks each of the companies in its research universe in the relative order of disparity between their intrinsic economic values and their current stock prices, with companies with the greatest disparities receiving the highest rankings (i.e., being considered the most undervalued). The Adviser anticipates that the Fund’s portfolio will vary in size, normally with 60 to 90 companies, with substantially all of those companies ranking in the top three deciles of the Adviser’s valuation model.

The Adviser recognizes that the perception of what is a “value” stock is relative and the factors considered in determining whether a stock is a “value” stock may, and often will, have differing relative significance in different phases of an economic cycle. Also, at different times, and as a result of how individual companies are valued in the market, the Fund may be attracted to investments in companies with different market capitalizations (i.e., large-, mid- or small-capitalization) or companies engaged in particular types of business (e.g., banks and other financial institutions), although the Fund does not intend to concentrate in any particular industries or businesses. The Fund’s portfolio emphasis upon particular industries or sectors will be a by-product of the stock selection process rather than the result of assigned targets or ranges.

The Fund may invest in mortgage-related and other asset-backed securities, loan participations, inflation-protected securities, structured securities, variable, floating, and inverse floating rate instruments, preferred stock, and may use other investment techniques. The Fund invests in short- and long-term debt securities in such proportions and of such type as the Adviser deems best adapted to the current economic and market outlooks. The Fund also may invest in equity and fixed-income securities of non-U.S. issuers located in emerging or developed countries. The Fund may enter into derivatives transactions, such as options, futures, forwards, and swap agreements.

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.

• Interest Rate Risk: Changes in interest rates will affect the value of investments in fixed-income securities. When interest rates rise, the value of investments in fixed-income securities tend to fall and this decrease in value may not be offset by higher income from new investments. Interest rate risk is generally greater for fixed-income securities with longer maturities or durations.

• Credit Risk: An issuer or guarantor of a fixed-income security, or the counterparty to a derivatives or other contract, may be unable or unwilling to make timely payments of interest or principal, or to otherwise honor its obligations. The issuer or

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guarantor may default causing a loss of the full principal amount of a security. The degree of risk for a particular security may be reflected in its credit rating. There is the possibility that the credit rating of a fixed-income security may be downgraded after purchase, which may adversely affect the value of the security. Investments in fixed-income securities with lower ratings tend to have a higher probability that an issuer will default or fail to meet its payment obligations.

• Prepayment Risk: The value of mortgage-related or asset-backed securities may be particularly sensitive to changes in prevailing interest rates. Early payments of principal on some mortgage-related securities may occur during periods of falling mortgage interest rates and expose the Fund to a lower rate of return upon reinvestment of principal. Early payments associated with mortgage-related securities cause these securities to experience significantly greater price and yield volatility than is experienced by traditional fixed-income securities. During periods of rising interest rates, a reduction in prepayments may increase the effective life of mortgage-related securities, subjecting them to greater risk of decline in market value in response to rising interest rates. If the life of a mortgage-related security is inaccurately predicted, the Fund may not be able to realize the rate of return it expected.

• Allocation Risk: If the Fund pursues the objective of a portfolio balanced between equity and debt securities, it has the risk that the allocation of these investments may have a more significant effect on the Fund’s NAV when one of these asset classes is performing more poorly than the other.

• Foreign (Non-U.S.) Risk: Investment 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.

• 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.

• 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 desired 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 “Pricing & 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.

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

Best Quarter was up 12.80%, 2nd quarter, 2003; and Worst Quarter was down -13.42%, 4th quarter, 2008.

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Performance Table

Average Annual Total Returns

(For the periods ended December 31, 2009)

		1 Year	5 Years	10 Years
Class A*	Return Before Taxes	14.10%	-.38%	3.09%
	Return After Taxes on Distributions	13.52%	-1.28%	2.12%
	Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares	9.45%	-.40%	2.35%
Class B	Return Before Taxes	14.24%	-.26%	2.94%
Class C	Return Before Taxes	17.23%	-.25%	2.79%
Advisor Class	Return Before Taxes	19.43%	.76%	3.83%
Russell 1000™ Value Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)		19.69%	-.25%	2.47%
Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)		5.93%	4.97%	6.33%
60% Russell 1000™ Value Index/40% Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Index (reflects no deduction for fees, expenses or taxes)		14.81%	2.18%	4.36%

* 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.

INVESTMENT ADVISER

AllianceBernstein L.P. is the investment adviser for the Fund.

PORTFOLIO MANAGERS

The following table lists the persons responsible for day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio:

Employee	Length of Service	Title
Frank V. Caruso	Since 2007	Senior Vice President of the Adviser
Paul J. DeNoon	Since 2009	Senior Vice President of the Adviser
Shawn E. Keegan	Since 2007	Vice President of the Adviser
Alison M. Martier	Since 2007	Senior Vice President of the Adviser
Douglas J. Peebles	Since 2007	Executive Vice President of the Adviser
Greg J. Wilensky	Since 2007	Senior Vice President of the Adviser

PURCHASE AND SALE OF FUND SHARES

Purchase Minimums

	Initial	Subsequent
Class A/Class C Shares, including traditional IRAs and Roth IRAs (Class B shares are not currently offered to new shareholders)	$2,500	$50
Automatic Investment Program	No minimum	$50 If initial investment is less than $2,500, then $200 monthly until account balance reaches $2,500
Advisor Class Shares (only available to fee-based programs or through other limited arrangements)	None	None

You may sell (redeem) your shares each day the New York Stock Exchange is open. You may sell your shares through your financial intermediary or by mail (AllianceBernstein Investor Services, Inc., P.O. Box 786003, San Antonio, TX 78278-6003 or telephone (800-221-5672).

TAX INFORMATION

The Fund may make income dividends or capital gains distributions, which may be subject to federal income taxes and taxable as ordinary income or capital gains, and may also be subject to state and local taxes.

PAYMENTS TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES

If you purchase shares of the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank), the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other financial intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information.

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