N-Q 1 d799260dnq.htm ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN VARIABLE PRODUCTS SERIES FUND, INC. AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM N-Q

QUARTERLY SCHEDULE OF PORTFOLIO HOLDINGS OF REGISTERED

MANAGEMENT INVESTMENT COMPANIES

Investment Company Act file number: 811-05398

ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN VARIABLE PRODUCTS SERIES FUND, INC.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in charter)

1345 Avenue of the Americas, New York, New York 10105

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip code)

Joseph J. Mantineo

AllianceBernstein L.P.

1345 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10105

(Name and address of agent for service)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (800) 221-5672

Date of fiscal year end: December 31, 2014

Date of reporting period: September 30, 2014

 

 

 


ITEM 1. SCHEDULE OF INVESTMENTS.


AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

Balanced Wealth Strategy Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

 

Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

COMMON STOCKS - 63.7%

       

Financials - 10.0%

       

Banks - 3.2%

       

Banco do Brasil SA

     9,600         $ 99,226   

Bank Hapoalim BM

     29,100           164,079   

Bank of America Corp.

     118,300           2,017,015   

Citigroup, Inc.

     21,400           1,108,948   

Comerica, Inc.

     9,600           478,656   

Commerzbank AG (a)

     12,750           189,326   

Credit Agricole SA

     8,606           129,723   

Danske Bank A/S

     15,960           432,639   

Fifth Third Bancorp

     13,200           264,264   

ING Groep NV (a)

     15,760           224,016   

Itausa-Investimentos Itau SA (Preference Shares)

     25,500           96,572   

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

     24,300           1,463,832   

Kasikornbank PCL (NVDR)

     17,400           125,850   

KBC Groep NV (a)

     4,990           264,899   

Lloyds Banking Group PLC (a)

     217,137           270,133   

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.

     69,100           389,428   

PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (The)

     1,900           162,602   

Regions Financial Corp.

     20,700           207,828   

Shinhan Financial Group Co., Ltd.

     2,130           98,058   

Societe Generale SA

     10,552           538,235   

State Bank of India

     2,600           102,512   

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.

     7,300           297,435   

UniCredit SpA

     78,240           614,645   

Wells Fargo & Co.

     37,200           1,929,564   
       

 

 

 
          11,669,485   
       

 

 

 

Capital Markets - 1.2%

       

Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. (a)

     4,842           970,143   

BlackRock, Inc.-Class A

     3,120           1,024,359   

Daiwa Securities Group, Inc.

     85,000           674,107   

Deutsche Bank AG (REG)

     10,011           349,559   

State Street Corp.

     4,100           301,801   

UBS AG (REG) (a)

     62,452           1,085,592   
       

 

 

 
          4,405,561   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Finance - 0.8%

       

Capital One Financial Corp.

     14,600           1,191,652   

Discover Financial Services

     13,500           869,265   

Muthoot Finance Ltd.

     39,211           130,245   

Shriram Transport Finance Co., Ltd.

     7,705           116,539   

SLM Corp.

     66,600           570,096   
       

 

 

 
          2,877,797   
       

 

 

 

Diversified Financial Services - 0.8%

       

Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.-Class B (a)

     5,300           732,142   

Cerved Information Solutions SpA (a)

     54,210           334,407   

Friends Life Group Ltd.

     28,740           143,126   

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.

     2,803           546,725   

ORIX Corp.

     36,500           503,899   

Voya Financial, Inc.

     17,100           668,610   
       

 

 

 
          2,928,909   
       

 

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Insurance - 3.2%

       

Admiral Group PLC

     34,790           721,498   

AIA Group Ltd.

     212,600           1,097,174   

Allstate Corp. (The)

     12,000           736,440   

American Financial Group, Inc./OH

     11,700           677,313   

American International Group, Inc.

     24,900           1,345,098   

Aon PLC

     9,440           827,605   

Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd.

     4,700           201,019   

Assurant, Inc.

     9,000           578,700   

Aviva PLC

     18,910           159,980   

BB Seguridade Participacoes SA

     7,500           98,662   

Chubb Corp. (The)

     8,100           737,748   

Direct Line Insurance Group PLC

     32,790           156,060   

Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. (The)

     5,700           350,094   

Lancashire Holdings Ltd.

     32,020           332,219   

Lincoln National Corp.

     15,600           835,848   

Muenchener Rueckversicherungs AG

     2,290           451,743   

PartnerRe Ltd.

     7,500           824,175   

Prudential PLC

     34,820           774,095   

Suncorp Group Ltd.

     11,430           140,490   

Travelers Cos., Inc. (The)

     3,700           347,578   

Unum Group

     2,300           79,074   

XL Group PLC

     3,000           99,510   
       

 

 

 
          11,572,123   
       

 

 

 

Real Estate Management & Development - 0.7%

       

Aeon Mall Co., Ltd.

     13,100           250,252   

Ayala Land, Inc.

     21,100           16,441   

China Overseas Land & Investment Ltd.

     150,000           384,566   

Daito Trust Construction Co., Ltd.

     7,200           851,419   

Global Logistic Properties Ltd.

     439,000           931,825   

Hang Lung Group Ltd.

     12,000           59,147   
       

 

 

 
          2,493,650   
       

 

 

 

Thrifts & Mortgage Finance - 0.1%

       

Housing Development Finance Corp.

     26,340           448,186   
       

 

 

 
          36,395,711   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Discretionary - 9.6%

       

Auto Components - 0.7%

       

Cie Generale des Etablissements Michelin-Class B

     4,520           425,742   

GKN PLC

     17,140           88,264   

Lear Corp.

     5,200           449,332   

Magna International, Inc. (New York)-Class A

     4,600           436,586   

Plastic Omnium SA

     5,610           133,952   

Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd.

     27,200           402,664   

Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd.

     10,900           155,053   

Valeo SA

     4,860           540,017   
       

 

 

 
          2,631,610   
       

 

 

 

Automobiles - 0.8%

       

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG

     1,830           195,580   

Ford Motor Co.

     61,000           902,190   

Great Wall Motor Co., Ltd.-Class H

     38,500           149,205   

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

     14,100           483,769   

Renault SA

     2,030           146,850   

Tata Motors Ltd.

     17,050           138,635   

Tata Motors Ltd.-Class A

     6,567           36,504   

Toyota Motor Corp.

     9,300           547,204   

Volkswagen AG (Preference Shares)

     1,170           241,614   
       

 

 

 
          2,841,551   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Distributors - 0.0%

       

Inchcape PLC

     14,370           149,436   
       

 

 

 

Diversified Consumer Services - 0.2%

       

Estacio Participacoes SA

     37,100           385,588   

Kroton Educacional SA

     43,600           273,953   
       

 

 

 
          659,541   
       

 

 

 

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 1.1%

       

Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd.

     40,000           232,241   

Melco International Development Ltd.

     121,000           281,090   

Merlin Entertainments PLC (b)

     46,579           264,676   

Sands China Ltd.

     69,200           361,003   

Sodexo

     6,069           593,678   

Starbucks Corp.

     21,030           1,586,924   

Whitbread PLC

     2,190           147,159   

William Hill PLC

     31,578           188,710   

Yum! Brands, Inc.

     2,150           154,757   
       

 

 

 
          3,810,238   
       

 

 

 

Household Durables - 0.1%

       

PulteGroup, Inc.

     27,600           487,416   
       

 

 

 

Internet & Catalog Retail - 0.6%

       

Just Eat PLC (a)

     54,105           258,751   

Priceline Group, Inc. (The) (a)

     1,650           1,911,657   
       

 

 

 
          2,170,408   
       

 

 

 

Leisure Products - 0.3%

       

Polaris Industries, Inc.

     7,370           1,103,952   
       

 

 

 

Media - 1.9%

       

Comcast Corp.-Class A

     37,580           2,021,052   

Discovery Communications, Inc.-Class A (a)

     6,760           255,528   

Liberty Global PLC-Series C (a)

     27,700           1,136,116   

Naspers Ltd.-Class N

     3,700           405,237   

Time Warner, Inc.

     6,300           473,823   

Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc.-Class A

     19,600           672,084   

Walt Disney Co. (The)

     22,128           1,970,056   
       

 

 

 
          6,933,896   
       

 

 

 

Multiline Retail - 0.7%

       

B&M European Value Retail SA (a)

     139,637           622,525   

Dillard’s, Inc.-Class A

     3,000           326,940   

Dollar General Corp. (a)

     10,300           629,433   

Macy’s, Inc.

     11,100           645,798   

Poundland Group PLC (a)

     59,110           302,619   
       

 

 

 
          2,527,315   
       

 

 

 

Specialty Retail - 1.9%

       

Foot Locker, Inc.

     12,900           717,885   

GameStop Corp.-Class A

     17,900           737,480   

Gap, Inc. (The)

     10,100           421,069   


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Home Depot, Inc. (The)

     19,330           1,773,334   

Kingfisher PLC

     23,360           122,170   

L’Occitane International SA

     3,500           8,025   

O’Reilly Automotive, Inc. (a)

     4,540           682,634   

Office Depot, Inc. (a)

     122,700           630,678   

Shimamura Co., Ltd.

     1,700           156,286   

Sports Direct International PLC (a)

     51,549           515,080   

Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc. (a)

     9,540           1,127,342   

Yamada Denki Co., Ltd.

     60,900           177,757   
       

 

 

 
          7,069,740   
       

 

 

 

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 1.3%

       

Cie Financiere Richemont SA

     11,400           931,849   

Global Brands Group Holding Ltd. (a)

     600,000           132,907   

Hugo Boss AG

     2,416           301,186   

Kering

     590           118,956   

Li & Fung Ltd.

     428,000           486,160   

Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. (a)

     5,590           399,070   

NIKE, Inc.-Class B

     16,921           1,509,353   

Ralph Lauren Corp.

     1,720           283,336   

Samsonite International SA

     100,500           322,926   

Titan Co., Ltd.

     14,370           94,865   
       

 

 

 
          4,580,608   
       

 

 

 
          34,965,711   
       

 

 

 

Information Technology - 8.8%

       

Communications Equipment - 0.7%

       

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

     64,600           702,202   

F5 Networks, Inc. (a)

     5,980           710,065   

Harris Corp.

     10,200           677,280   

Cisco Systems, Inc.

     12,400           312,108   
       

 

 

 
          2,401,655   
       

 

 

 

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components - 0.4%

       

Arrow Electronics, Inc. (a)

     6,200           343,170   

Amphenol Corp.-Class A

     12,310           1,229,277   
       

 

 

 
          1,572,447   
       

 

 

 

Internet Software & Services - 1.8%

       

Google, Inc.-Class C (a)

     3,660           2,113,138   

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (ADR) (a)

     3,954           351,313   

Baidu, Inc. (Sponsored ADR) (a)

     1,970           429,913   

Facebook, Inc.-Class A (a)

     16,780           1,326,291   

Google, Inc.-Class A (a)

     3,350           1,971,174   

Telecity Group PLC (c)

     45,783           554,029   
       

 

 

 
          6,745,858   
       

 

 

 

IT Services - 1.2%

       

Xerox Corp.

     67,600           894,348   

HCL Technologies Ltd.

     1,840           51,082   

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.

     8,600           201,240   

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

     4,340           192,110   

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp.-Class A (a)

     9,410           421,286   

Visa, Inc.-Class A

     12,470           2,660,724   

Cap Gemini SA

     2,270           162,790   
       

 

 

 
          4,583,580   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 1.7%

       

Linear Technology Corp.

     31,020           1,376,978   

ASM International NV

     4,020           145,972   

Novatek Microelectronics Corp.

     37,000           182,602   

NXP Semiconductor NV (a)

     10,890           745,203   

Applied Materials, Inc.

     29,300           633,173   

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.

     131,000           153,015   

Tokyo Electron Ltd.

     2,600           169,455   

Altera Corp.

     11,600           415,048   

Intel Corp.

     31,800           1,107,276   

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

     320           358,402   

Micron Technology, Inc. (a)

     18,800           644,088   

Sumco Corp. (c)

     20,900           253,438   
       

 

 

 
          6,184,650   
       

 

 

 

Software - 1.4%

       

ServiceNow, Inc. (a)

     7,382           433,914   

NetSuite, Inc. (a)

     5,020           449,491   

Aspen Technology, Inc. (a)

     6,730           253,856   

ANSYS, Inc. (a)

     15,835           1,198,234   

Electronic Arts, Inc. (a)

     23,200           826,152   

Dassault Systemes

     4,930           316,697   

Microsoft Corp.

     34,300           1,590,148   
       

 

 

 
          5,068,492   
       

 

 

 

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 1.6%

       

Catcher Technology Co., Ltd.

     27,000           250,067   

Casetek Holdings Ltd.

     27,000           164,881   

Asustek Computer, Inc.

     16,000           152,678   

Apple, Inc.

     35,170           3,543,378   

Hewlett-Packard Co.

     46,000           1,631,620   
       

 

 

 
          5,742,624   
       

 

 

 
          32,299,306   
       

 

 

 

Health Care - 7.1%

       

Biotechnology - 1.8%

       

Actelion Ltd. (REG) (a)

     5,070           593,828   

Biogen Idec, Inc. (a)

     6,668           2,205,841   

Gilead Sciences, Inc. (a)

     35,020           3,727,879   

Grifols SA (ADR)

     2,513           88,282   
       

 

 

 
          6,615,830   
       

 

 

 

Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 0.3%

       

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (a)

     2,550           1,177,641   
       

 

 

 

Health Care Providers & Services - 1.3%

       

Aetna, Inc.

     11,500           931,500   

McKesson Corp.

     3,070           597,637   

UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

     19,191           1,655,224   

WellPoint, Inc.

     11,700           1,399,554   
       

 

 

 
          4,583,915   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Life Sciences Tools & Services - 0.8%

       

Eurofins Scientific SE

     4,849           1,254,592   

Mettler-Toledo International, Inc. (a)

     1,929           494,075   

Quintiles Transnational Holdings, Inc. (a)

     21,223           1,183,819   
       

 

 

 
          2,932,486   
       

 

 

 

Pharmaceuticals - 2.9%

       

Allergan, Inc./United States

     15,113           2,692,985   

Astellas Pharma, Inc.

     23,400           348,510   

GlaxoSmithKline PLC

     35,530           811,652   

Johnson & Johnson

     18,000           1,918,620   

Merck & Co., Inc.

     18,700           1,108,536   

Novo Nordisk A/S-Class B

     10,470           498,495   

Pfizer, Inc.

     71,700           2,120,169   

Roche Holding AG

     3,040           897,721   

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

     11,420           157,820   

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

     2,770           149,082   
       

 

 

 
          10,703,590   
       

 

 

 
          26,013,462   
       

 

 

 

Industrials - 6.2%

       

Aerospace & Defense - 1.1%

       

Airbus Group NV

     11,230           705,922   

Boeing Co. (The)

     10,010           1,275,074   

MTU Aero Engines AG

     1,693           144,038   

Northrop Grumman Corp.

     4,100           540,216   

Precision Castparts Corp.

     2,434           576,566   

Safran SA

     6,050           392,244   

Thales SA

     2,020           107,508   

Zodiac Aerospace

     9,339           297,808   
       

 

 

 
          4,039,376   
       

 

 

 

Air Freight & Logistics - 0.0%

       

Royal Mail PLC

     20,780           131,649   
       

 

 

 

Airlines - 0.5%

       

Copa Holdings SA-Class A

     9,150           981,703   

Delta Air Lines, Inc.

     15,200           549,480   

Japan Airlines Co., Ltd.

     4,000           109,451   

Qantas Airways Ltd. (a)

     146,540           178,008   

Turk Hava Yollari (a)

     49,857           141,751   
       

 

 

 
          1,960,393   
       

 

 

 

Building Products - 0.0%

       

Asahi Glass Co., Ltd.

     20,000           108,496   
       

 

 

 

Commercial Services & Supplies - 0.4%

       

Babcock International Group PLC

     45,125           796,265   

Edenred

     21,060           518,940   

Regus PLC

     26,718           73,220   
       

 

 

 
          1,388,425   
       

 

 

 

Electrical Equipment - 0.4%

       

AMETEK, Inc.

     25,622           1,286,481   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Industrial Conglomerates - 0.7%

       

Bidvest Group Ltd. (The)

     4,750           120,192   

Danaher Corp.

     15,679           1,191,290   

General Electric Co.

     30,300           776,286   

Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.

     18,000           217,595   

Toshiba Corp.

     74,000           343,522   
       

 

 

 
          2,648,885   
       

 

 

 

Industrial Warehouse Distribution - 0.4%

       

Granite Real Estate Investment Trust

     9,830           339,430   

Hansteen Holdings PLC

     68,120           114,298   

Japan Logistics Fund, Inc.

     57           126,025   

Mapletree Industrial Trust

     159,000           176,898   

Mapletree Logistics Trust

     231,389           209,540   

Mexico Real Estate Management SA de CV (a)

     59,400           104,819   

ProLogis, Inc.

     2,553           96,248   

STAG Industrial, Inc.

     19,090           395,354   
       

 

 

 
          1,562,612   
       

 

 

 

Machinery - 1.0%

       

Caterpillar, Inc.

     5,900           584,277   

Dover Corp.

     7,000           562,310   

ITT Corp.

     12,100           543,774   

JTEKT Corp.

     18,600           311,764   

Pall Corp.

     7,940           664,578   

Parker-Hannifin Corp.

     1,900           216,885   

Wabtec Corp./DE

     8,180           662,907   
       

 

 

 
          3,546,495   
       

 

 

 

Marine - 0.1%

       

AP Moeller-Maersk A/S-Class B

     65           153,975   

Nippon Yusen KK

     97,000           255,749   
       

 

 

 
          409,724   
       

 

 

 

Mixed Office Industrial - 0.1%

       

Goodman Group

     56,240           254,162   
       

 

 

 

Professional Services - 1.2%

       

Applus Services SA (a)

     19,095           251,912   

Bureau Veritas SA

     37,429           827,217   

Capita PLC

     66,411           1,250,214   

Intertek Group PLC

     23,452           993,885   

Nielsen NV

     19,080           845,816   

Teleperformance

     1,290           79,784   
       

 

 

 
          4,248,828   
       

 

 

 

Road & Rail - 0.1%

       

Central Japan Railway Co.

     1,900           256,289   
       

 

 

 

Trading Companies & Distributors - 0.2%

       

Brenntag AG

     5,810           284,366   

Bunzl PLC

     1,180           30,703   

Mitsubishi Corp.

     12,300           251,907   

Rexel SA

     6,447           120,396   
       

 

 

 
          687,372   
       

 

 

 
          22,529,187   
       

 

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Consumer Staples - 4.2%

       

Beverages - 0.7%

       

Asahi Group Holdings Ltd.

     4,100           118,597   

Carlsberg A/S-Class B

     2,260           200,716   

Diageo PLC

     5,410           156,036   

Molson Coors Brewing Co.-Class B

     1,000           74,440   

Monster Beverage Corp. (a)

     20,771           1,904,078   
       

 

 

 
          2,453,867   
       

 

 

 

Food & Staples Retailing - 1.4%

       

Costco Wholesale Corp.

     6,650           833,378   

CVS Health Corp.

     33,700           2,682,183   

Koninklijke Ahold NV

     26,435           427,603   

Kroger Co. (The)

     14,100           733,200   

Lenta Ltd. (GDR) (a) (b)

     6,510           69,462   

Olam International Ltd.

     179,412           329,531   

Sugi Holdings Co., Ltd. (c)

     2,100           88,185   

Tsuruha Holdings, Inc.

     1,800           100,121   
       

 

 

 
          5,263,663   
       

 

 

 

Food Products - 0.5%

       

Danone SA

     1,723           115,382   

Keurig Green Mountain, Inc.

     4,140           538,738   

Mead Johnson Nutrition Co.-Class A

     12,330           1,186,393   
       

 

 

 
          1,840,513   
       

 

 

 

Household Products - 0.2%

       

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA

     1,676           156,293   

Procter & Gamble Co. (The)

     5,000           418,700   

Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC

     2,780           240,352   
       

 

 

 
          815,345   
       

 

 

 

Personal Products - 0.1%

       

Estee Lauder Cos., Inc. (The)-Class A

     7,590           567,125   
       

 

 

 

Tobacco - 1.3%

       

British American Tobacco PLC

     18,659           1,051,445   

Imperial Tobacco Group PLC

     8,140           350,476   

Japan Tobacco, Inc.

     34,100           1,108,094   

Philip Morris International, Inc.

     25,075           2,091,255   
       

 

 

 
          4,601,270   
       

 

 

 
          15,541,783   
       

 

 

 

Energy - 3.9%

       

Energy Equipment & Services - 1.2%

       

Akastor ASA

     14,840           59,753   

Aker Solutions ASA (a) (b)

     14,840           147,828   

FMC Technologies, Inc. (a)

     15,560           845,064   

Halliburton Co.

     12,500           806,375   

Nabors Industries Ltd.

     20,600           468,856   

Oceaneering International, Inc.

     3,959           258,008   

Schlumberger Ltd.

     19,544           1,987,429   
       

 

 

 
          4,573,313   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 2.7%

       

BG Group PLC

     18,650           344,295   

Chesapeake Energy Corp.

     7,200           165,528   

Chevron Corp.

     10,700           1,276,724   

China Petroleum & Chemical Corp.-Class H

     102,000           89,214   

Exxon Mobil Corp.

     24,000           2,257,200   

Hess Corp.

     14,000           1,320,480   

JX Holdings, Inc.

     96,400           444,477   

Murphy Oil Corp.

     9,700           552,027   

Occidental Petroleum Corp.

     15,000           1,442,250   

Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Sponsored ADR)

     5,930           88,298   

Royal Dutch Shell PLC (Euronext Amsterdam)-Class A

     10,055           383,826   

SM Energy Co.

     2,200           171,600   

Total SA

     9,910           641,713   

Valero Energy Corp.

     14,400           666,288   
       

 

 

 
          9,843,920   
       

 

 

 
          14,417,233   
       

 

 

 

Equity: Other - 3.4%

       

Diversified/Specialty - 2.9%

       

Armada Hoffler Properties, Inc.

     15,792           143,391   

British Land Co. PLC (The)

     49,193           558,999   

Buzzi Unicem SpA

     12,990           176,601   

CA Immobilien Anlagen AG (a)

     15,980           318,195   

Cheung Kong Holdings Ltd.

     21,000           345,178   

ClubCorp Holdings, Inc.

     19,904           394,696   

Cofinimmo SA

     2,140           242,453   

Country Garden Holdings Co., Ltd.

     390,000           147,099   

CSR Ltd.

     57,960           168,882   

East Japan Railway Co.

     2,500           187,257   

Fibra Uno Administracion SA de CV

     63,490           208,852   

Folkestone Education Trust

     51,780           87,725   

Fukuoka REIT Corp. (c)

     55           101,552   

GPT Group (The)

     56,620           191,747   

Gramercy Property Trust, Inc.

     59,970           345,427   

Hemfosa Fastigheter AB (a)

     11,100           173,268   

Henderson Land Development Co., Ltd.

     21,340           138,152   

Kennedy Wilson Europe Real Estate PLC

     20,500           362,911   

Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc.

     14,900           357,004   

Lend Lease Group

     35,160           441,463   

Merlin Properties Socimi SA (a)

     42,500           539,480   

Mitchells & Butlers PLC (a)

     28,570           165,378   

Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd.

     30,000           676,119   

Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.

     19,100           586,149   

New World Development Co., Ltd.

     78,893           91,906   

New York REIT, Inc. (c)

     35,780           367,818   

Nomura Real Estate Master Fund, Inc.

     104           130,553   

Orix JREIT, Inc.

     208           261,473   

Pruksa Real Estate PCL

     104,500           110,382   

Regal Entertainment Group-Class A

     18,080           359,430   

Spirit Realty Capital, Inc.

     12,361           135,600   

Sumitomo Realty & Development Co., Ltd.

     12,000           427,530   

Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd.

     36,600           519,322   

Supalai PCL

     195,400           156,682   

Swire Properties Ltd.

     8,000           24,977   

Taiheiyo Cement Corp. (c)

     23,000           86,747   

TF Administradora Industrial S de RL de CV (a)

     71,170           156,801   

Top REIT, Inc. (c)

     26           113,888   

Vornado Realty Trust

     1,690           168,932   

Wharf Holdings Ltd. (The)

     85,000           604,278   
       

 

 

 
          10,774,297   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Health Care - 0.5%

       

Chartwell Retirement Residences

     20,060           196,310   

HCP, Inc.

     6,510           258,512   

LTC Properties, Inc.

     8,320           306,925   

Medical Properties Trust, Inc.

     26,315           322,622   

Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc.

     11,730           401,049   

Ventas, Inc.

     3,980           246,561   
       

 

 

 
          1,731,979   
       

 

 

 
          12,506,276   
       

 

 

 

Retail - 2.1%

       

Diversified/Specialty - 0.0%

       

Tokyu Fudosan Holdings Corp.

     13,700           94,060   
       

 

 

 

Regional Mall - 0.7%

       

Macerich Co. (The)

     3,150           201,064   

Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust

     20,650           411,761   

Simon Property Group, Inc.

     7,516           1,235,781   

Taubman Centers, Inc.

     1,240           90,520   

Washington Prime Group, Inc.

     25,218           440,811   
       

 

 

 
          2,379,937   
       

 

 

 

Shopping Center/Other Retail - 1.4%

       

American Realty Capital Properties, Inc.

     7,389           89,111   

Citycon OYJ

     31,860           106,231   

DDR Corp.

     19,380           324,227   

Federation Centres

     127,660           288,002   

Hammerson PLC

     22,530           209,157   

Harvey Norman Holdings Ltd. (c)

     33,080           105,030   

Japan Retail Fund Investment Corp.

     103           207,617   

Kite Realty Group Trust

     15,691           380,350   

Klepierre

     9,553           417,867   

Link REIT (The)

     19,268           111,313   

Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust

     24,570           399,262   

Regency Centers Corp.

     3,050           164,181   

Retail Opportunity Investments Corp.

     26,370           387,639   

RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust (Toronto)

     4,973           113,984   

Scentre Group (a)

     195,569           562,692   

Unibail-Rodamco SE

     2,669           686,354   

Vastned Retail NV

     5,794           265,208   

Weingarten Realty Investors

     3,450           108,675   

Westfield Corp.

     36,900           240,443   
       

 

 

 
          5,167,343   
       

 

 

 
          7,641,340   
       

 

 

 

Materials - 1.8%

       

Chemicals - 1.5%

       

Arkema SA

     3,113           208,600   

BASF SE

     1,060           96,690   

CF Industries Holdings, Inc.

     425           118,669   

Chr Hansen Holding A/S

     7,710           297,632   

Denki Kagaku Kogyo KK

     45,000           147,523   

Eastman Chemical Co.

     6,400           517,696   


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Essentra PLC

     68,184           878,719   

IMCD Group NV (a)

     2,670           76,653   

Incitec Pivot Ltd.

     51,451           121,878   

JSR Corp.

     22,300           389,176   

Koninklijke DSM NV

     4,698           289,672   

LyondellBasell Industries NV-Class A

     7,300           793,218   

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Co., Inc.

     34,000           216,775   

Monsanto Co.

     9,809           1,103,611   

Potash Corp. of Saskatchewan, Inc.

     8,870           306,547   
       

 

 

 
          5,563,059   
       

 

 

 

Metals & Mining - 0.2%

       

Alcoa, Inc.

     8,700           139,983   

Dowa Holdings Co., Ltd.

     12,000           99,996   

MMC Norilsk Nickel OJSC (ADR)

     5,580           104,067   

Rio Tinto PLC

     8,230           403,269   
       

 

 

 
          747,315   
       

 

 

 

Paper & Forest Products - 0.1%

       

Mondi PLC

     12,100           197,333   
       

 

 

 
          6,507,707   
       

 

 

 

Residential - 1.5%

       

Multi-Family - 1.3%

       

Associated Estates Realty Corp.

     32,340           566,273   

Brookfield Residential Properties, Inc. (a)

     9,051           170,973   

China Vanke Co., Ltd.-Class H (a) (c)

     152,060           265,794   

CIFI Holdings Group Co., Ltd.

     640,000           119,485   

Comforia Residential REIT, Inc. (c)

     63           117,188   

Equity Residential

     3,890           239,546   

Essex Property Trust, Inc.

     505           90,269   

Even Construtora e Incorporadora SA

     32,100           71,472   

GAGFAH SA (a)

     23,283           432,825   

Irish Residential Properties REIT PLC (a)

     81,000           112,538   

Kaisa Group Holdings Ltd. (c)

     228,017           87,178   

Kenedix Residential Investment Corp.

     52           132,952   

KWG Property Holding Ltd.

     239,000           168,044   

LEG Immobilien AG (a)

     4,789           331,060   

Meritage Homes Corp. (a)

     8,370           297,135   

Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc.

     6,780           445,107   

Stockland

     121,699           420,447   

Sun Communities, Inc.

     6,501           328,300   

Taylor Wimpey PLC

     105,010           191,048   

Wing Tai Holdings Ltd.

     125,000           172,783   
       

 

 

 
          4,760,417   
       

 

 

 

Self Storage - 0.1%

       

Public Storage

     1,270           210,617   

Safestore Holdings PLC

     53,910           187,028   
       

 

 

 
          397,645   
       

 

 

 

Single Family - 0.1%

       

Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc.

     8,060           331,346   
       

 

 

 
          5,489,408   
       

 

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Office - 1.4%

       

Office - 1.4%

       

Allied Properties Real Estate Investment Trust

     7,776           237,318   

Boston Properties, Inc.

     1,624           187,994   

Columbia Property Trust, Inc.

     15,490           369,746   

Cominar Real Estate Investment Trust

     15,513           261,794   

Cousins Properties, Inc.

     34,692           414,569   

Dream Office Real Estate Investment Trust

     7,896           197,127   

Fabege AB

     15,130           192,150   

Hongkong Land Holdings Ltd.

     70,000           475,771   

Investa Office Fund

     50,000           146,561   

Japan Excellent, Inc.

     235           301,889   

Japan Prime Realty Investment Corp.

     75           270,163   

Japan Real Estate Investment Corp.

     57           293,168   

Kenedix Office Investment Corp.-Class A

     53           284,579   

Kilroy Realty Corp.

     2,500           148,600   

NTT Urban Development Corp. (c)

     11,000           115,652   

Parkway Properties, Inc./MD

     20,458           384,201   

SL Green Realty Corp.

     6,118           619,876   

Workspace Group PLC

     22,440           230,095   
       

 

 

 
          5,131,253   
       

 

 

 

Utilities - 1.3%

       

Electric Utilities - 0.7%

       

American Electric Power Co., Inc.

     10,800           563,868   

Edison International

     16,900           945,048   

EDP-Energias de Portugal SA

     71,150           310,260   

Electricite de France SA

     5,740           188,311   

Enel SpA

     40,691           215,260   

Light SA

     11,100           93,779   
       

 

 

 
          2,316,526   
       

 

 

 

Gas Utilities - 0.2%

       

Atmos Energy Corp.

     1,800           85,860   

UGI Corp.

     20,700           705,663   
       

 

 

 
          791,523   
       

 

 

 

Independent Power Producers & Energy Traders - 0.3%

       

APR Energy PLC

     29,787           260,632   

Calpine Corp. (a)

     28,800           624,960   

NRG Energy, Inc.

     10,400           316,992   
       

 

 

 
          1,202,584   
       

 

 

 

Multi-Utilities - 0.1%

       

CenterPoint Energy, Inc.

     19,800           484,506   
       

 

 

 
          4,795,139   
       

 

 

 

Telecommunication Services - 1.3%

       

Diversified Telecommunication Services - 0.9%

       

AT&T, Inc.

     39,900           1,406,076   

Bezeq The Israeli Telecommunication Corp., Ltd.

     63,518           109,646   

Hellenic Telecommunications Organization SA (a)

     6,960           91,383   

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp.

     6,700           415,496   

Orange SA

     38,820           579,296   

Telenor ASA

     6,620           145,292   

Vivendi SA (a)

     9,554           230,708   

Ziggo NV (a)

     3,940           184,515   
       

 

 

 
          3,162,412   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Wireless Telecommunication Services - 0.4%

       

China Mobile Ltd.

     17,000           198,721   

Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri AS (a)

     21,330           111,504   

Vodafone Group PLC

     178,083           586,823   

Vodafone Group PLC (Sponsored ADR)

     16,900           555,841   
       

 

 

 
          1,452,889   
       

 

 

 
          4,615,301   
       

 

 

 

Lodging - 0.9%

       

Lodging - 0.9%

       

Ashford Hospitality Prime, Inc.

     23,254           354,158   

Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc.

     35,531           363,127   

Chatham Lodging Trust

     16,699           385,413   

DiamondRock Hospitality Co.

     33,700           427,316   

FelCor Lodging Trust, Inc.

     29,690           277,898   

Hersha Hospitality Trust

     61,740           393,284   

Intrawest Resorts Holdings, Inc. (a)

     8,400           81,228   

Japan Hotel REIT Investment Corp.

     252           153,535   

Pebblebrook Hotel Trust

     4,420           165,043   

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.

     4,500           374,445   

Wyndham Worldwide Corp.

     2,420           196,649   
       

 

 

 
          3,172,096   
       

 

 

 

Financial: Other - 0.1%

       

Financial: Other - 0.1%

       

HFF, Inc.-Class A

     9,620           278,499   
       

 

 

 

Mortgage - 0.1%

       

Mortgage - 0.1%

       

Altisource Residential Corp.

     11,220           269,280   
       

 

 

 

Total Common Stocks
(cost $190,938,111)

          232,568,692   
       

 

 

 
     Principal
Amount

(000)
          

CORPORATES-INVESTMENT GRADES - 8.5%

       

Industrial - 5.0%

       

Basic - 0.5%

       

Barrick Gold Corp.

       

4.10%, 5/01/23

     45           43,240   

Basell Finance Co. BV

       

8.10%, 3/15/27 (b)

     145           192,891   

Cia Minera Milpo SAA

       

4.625%, 3/28/23 (b)

     240           236,096   

Dow Chemical Co. (The)

       

4.125%, 11/15/21

     165           173,378   

Glencore Funding LLC

       

4.125%, 5/30/23 (b)

     126           124,703   

International Paper Co.

       

3.65%, 6/15/24

     48           46,572   


Company

   Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

LyondellBasell Industries NV

       

5.75%, 4/15/24

     435           505,030   

Minsur SA

       

6.25%, 2/07/24 (b)

     333           364,117   

Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA

       

3.625%, 4/03/23 (b)

     237           223,568   

Vale SA

       

5.625%, 9/11/42

     116           113,497   
       

 

 

 
          2,023,092   
       

 

 

 

Capital Goods - 0.2%

       

Odebrecht Finance Ltd.

       

5.25%, 6/27/29 (b)

     217           209,948   

Owens Corning

       

6.50%, 12/01/16 (d)

     178           196,093   

Republic Services, Inc.

       

3.80%, 5/15/18

     17           18,061   

Yamana Gold, Inc.

       

4.95%, 7/15/24 (b)

     277           275,744   
       

 

 

 
          699,846   
       

 

 

 

Communications - Media - 1.0%

       

21st Century Fox America, Inc.

       

3.00%, 9/15/22

     400           388,584   

6.15%, 2/15/41

     130           154,243   

CBS Corp.

       

5.75%, 4/15/20

     250           284,952   

Comcast Corp.

       

5.15%, 3/01/20

     451           511,178   

DirecTV Holdings LLC/DirecTV Financing Co., Inc.

       

3.80%, 3/15/22

     75           76,228   

4.45%, 4/01/24

     107           111,436   

5.20%, 3/15/20

     30           33,598   

Globo Comunicacao e Participacoes SA

       

5.307%, 5/11/22 (b) (e)

     221           233,265   

NBCUniversal Enterprise, Inc.

       

5.25%, 3/19/21 (b) (f)

     233           242,320   

Omnicom Group, Inc.

       

3.625%, 5/01/22

     165           167,428   

Reed Elsevier Capital, Inc.

       

8.625%, 1/15/19

     435           542,203   

Time Warner Cable, Inc.

       

4.125%, 2/15/21

     165           174,622   

Time Warner, Inc.

       

4.70%, 1/15/21

     123           134,610   

7.625%, 4/15/31

     110           148,475   

Viacom, Inc.

       

3.875%, 4/01/24

     110           109,543   

5.625%, 9/15/19

     83           94,444   

WPP Finance 2010

       

4.75%, 11/21/21

     77           84,002   
       

 

 

 
          3,491,131   
       

 

 

 

 


Company

   Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Communications - Telecommunications - 0.4%

       

American Tower Corp.

       

5.05%, 9/01/20

     380           412,083   

Deutsche Telekom International Finance BV

       

4.875%, 3/06/42 (b)

     490           506,650   

Rogers Communications, Inc.

       

4.00%, 6/06/22

   CAD     46           42,632   

Telefonica Emisiones SAU

       

5.462%, 2/16/21

   U.S.$     185           206,026   

Verizon Communications, Inc.

       

6.55%, 9/15/43

     297           371,069   
       

 

 

 
          1,538,460   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Cyclical - Automotive - 0.4%

       

Ford Motor Credit Co. LLC

       

5.875%, 8/02/21

     915           1,052,089   

Harley-Davidson Funding Corp.

       

5.75%, 12/15/14 (b)

     341           344,613   
       

 

 

 
          1,396,702   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Cyclical - Retailers - 0.1%

       

Macy’s Retail Holdings, Inc.

       

3.875%, 1/15/22

     201           209,383   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Non - Cyclical - 0.3%

       

Actavis Funding SCS

       

3.85%, 6/15/24 (b)

     89           86,274   

Bunge Ltd. Finance Corp.

       

5.10%, 7/15/15

     69           71,333   

8.50%, 6/15/19

     153           190,008   

Grupo Bimbo SAB de CV

       

3.875%, 6/27/24 (b)

     339           334,576   

Reynolds American, Inc.

       

3.25%, 11/01/22

     220           212,274   

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.

       

4.15%, 2/01/24

     121           125,279   

Tyson Foods, Inc.

       

2.65%, 8/15/19

     64           64,120   

3.95%, 8/15/24

     206           206,360   
       

 

 

 
          1,290,224   
       

 

 

 

Energy - 1.4%

       

Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc.

       

4.875%, 11/01/43

     111           102,891   

Encana Corp.

       

3.90%, 11/15/21

     140           144,497   

Energy Transfer Partners LP

       

7.50%, 7/01/38

     248           315,853   

Enterprise Products Operating LLC

       

5.20%, 9/01/20

     185           207,733   

Hess Corp.

       

7.875%, 10/01/29

     39           52,943   

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP

       

2.65%, 2/01/19

     302           301,101   

3.95%, 9/01/22

     424           420,921   


Company

   Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

6.85%, 2/15/20

     330           387,030   

Marathon Petroleum Corp.

       

5.125%, 3/01/21

     163           181,574   

Nabors Industries, Inc.

       

5.10%, 9/15/23

     180           195,013   

Noble Energy, Inc.

       

8.25%, 3/01/19

     374           462,432   

Noble Holding International Ltd.

       

3.95%, 3/15/22

     270           262,971   

4.90%, 8/01/20

     36           38,094   

Reliance Holding USA, Inc.

       

5.40%, 2/14/22 (b)

     315           344,333   

Sunoco Logistics Partners Operations LP

       

5.30%, 4/01/44

     295           300,989   

TransCanada PipeLines Ltd.

       

6.35%, 5/15/67

     120           123,900   

Transocean, Inc.

       

6.375%, 12/15/21

     2           2,127   

6.50%, 11/15/20

     300           318,771   

Valero Energy Corp.

       

6.125%, 2/01/20

     175           202,945   

Weatherford International Ltd./Bermuda

       

9.625%, 3/01/19

     285           365,887   

Williams Partners LP

       

5.25%, 3/15/20

     298           330,909   
       

 

 

 
          5,062,914   
       

 

 

 

Technology - 0.4%

       

Agilent Technologies, Inc.

       

5.00%, 7/15/20

     71           77,222   

Hewlett-Packard Co.

       

4.65%, 12/09/21

     114           123,480   

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

       

3.50%, 3/01/23

     300           290,039   

7.50%, 5/15/25

     35           44,078   

Seagate HDD Cayman

       

4.75%, 1/01/25 (b)

     127           126,365   

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson

       

4.125%, 5/15/22

     108           112,712   

Tencent Holdings Ltd.

       

3.375%, 5/02/19 (b)

     335           338,621   

Total System Services, Inc.

       

2.375%, 6/01/18

     141           140,009   

3.75%, 6/01/23

     139           136,147   
       

 

 

 
          1,388,673   
       

 

 

 

Transportation - Airlines - 0.1%

       

Southwest Airlines Co.

       

5.25%, 10/01/14

     307           307,000   

5.75%, 12/15/16

     155           169,412   
       

 

 

 
          476,412   
       

 

 

 

Transportation - Services - 0.2%

       

Asciano Finance Ltd.

       

3.125%, 9/23/15 (b)

     237           241,368   

5.00%, 4/07/18 (b)

     230           247,784   


Company

   Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Ryder System, Inc.

       

5.85%, 11/01/16

     127           138,807   

7.20%, 9/01/15

     127           134,589   
       

 

 

 
          762,548   
       

 

 

 
          18,339,385   
       

 

 

 

Financial Institutions - 3.0%

       

Banking - 2.0%

       

Bank of America Corp.

       

4.20%, 8/26/24

     174           172,496   

Barclays Bank PLC

       

6.625%, 3/30/22 (b)

   EUR     160           253,191   

BPCE SA

       

5.70%, 10/22/23 (b)

   U.S.$     262           278,692   

Compass Bank

       

5.50%, 4/01/20

     314           341,527   

Countrywide Financial Corp.

       

6.25%, 5/15/16

     92           99,164   

Credit Suisse AG

       

6.50%, 8/08/23 (b)

     267           290,399   

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The)

       

3.85%, 7/08/24

     365           362,846   

5.75%, 1/24/22

     335           380,954   

Series D

       

6.00%, 6/15/20

     440           505,485   

ING Bank NV

       

2.00%, 9/25/15 (b)

     480           486,317   

Macquarie Bank Ltd.

       

5.00%, 2/22/17 (b)

     90           96,988   

Macquarie Group Ltd.

       

4.875%, 8/10/17 (b)

     194           209,190   

Morgan Stanley

       

5.625%, 9/23/19

     168           189,113   

Series G

       

5.50%, 7/24/20

     189           212,634   

Murray Street Investment Trust I

       

4.647%, 3/09/17

     44           47,096   

National Capital Trust II Delaware

       

5.486%, 3/23/15 (b) (f)

     91           91,965   

Nationwide Building Society

       

6.25%, 2/25/20 (b)

     465           542,814   

Nordea Bank AB

       

6.125%, 9/23/24 (b) (f)

     200           196,000   

PNC Bank NA

       

3.80%, 7/25/23

     685           703,557   

Rabobank Capital Funding Trust III

       

5.254%, 10/21/16 (b) (f)

     190           199,500   

Standard Chartered PLC

       

4.00%, 7/12/22 (b)

     470           482,497   

Turkiye Garanti Bankasi AS

       

4.75%, 10/17/19 (b)

     336           338,094   

UBS AG/Stamford CT

       

7.625%, 8/17/22

     380           441,467   

Wells Fargo Bank NA

       

6.18%, 2/15/36

     250           309,059   
       

 

 

 
          7,231,045   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Brokerage – 0.1%

       

Nomura Holdings, Inc.

       

2.00%, 9/13/16

     468           472,621   
       

 

 

 

Finance - 0.1%

       

Aviation Capital Group Corp.

       

7.125%, 10/15/20 (b)

     173           200,502   
       

 

 

 

Insurance - 0.5%

       

Allied World Assurance Co. Holdings Ltd.

       

7.50%, 8/01/16

     160           177,362   

American International Group, Inc.

       

4.875%, 6/01/22

     155           170,488   

6.40%, 12/15/20

     300           356,915   

Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (The)

       

4.00%, 3/30/15

     95           96,682   

5.125%, 4/15/22

     180           200,762   

5.50%, 3/30/20

     242           273,234   

Humana, Inc.

       

6.45%, 6/01/16

     40           43,542   

Lincoln National Corp.

       

8.75%, 7/01/19

     98           124,838   

MetLife, Inc.

       

10.75%, 8/01/39

     70           113,050   

Prudential Financial, Inc.

       

5.625%, 6/15/43

     200           208,440   

XLIT Ltd.

       

6.375%, 11/15/24

     157           186,932   
       

 

 

 
          1,952,245   
       

 

 

 

Other Finance - 0.1%

       

ORIX Corp.

       

4.71%, 4/27/15

     336           344,475   
       

 

 

 

REITS - 0.2%

       

Health Care REIT, Inc.

       

5.25%, 1/15/22

     300           331,899   

Trust F/1401

       

5.25%, 12/15/24 (b)

     270           280,800   
       

 

 

 
          612,699   
       

 

 

 
          10,813,587   
       

 

 

 

Non Corporate Sectors - 0.3%

       

ABS - Other - 0.1%

       

Rio Oil Finance Trust

       

Series 2014-1

       

6.25%, 7/06/24 (b)

     269           276,929   
       

 

 

 

Agencies - Not Government Guaranteed - 0.2%

       

CNOOC Finance 2013 Ltd.

       

3.00%, 5/09/23

     286           265,757   

OCP SA

       

5.625%, 4/25/24 (b)

     335           348,467   
       

 

 

 
          614,224   
       

 

 

 
          891,153   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Utility - 0.2%

       

Electric - 0.1%

       

CMS Energy Corp.

       

5.05%, 3/15/22

     155           173,196   

Constellation Energy Group, Inc.

       

5.15%, 12/01/20

     89           98,537   

Pacific Gas & Electric Co.

       

6.05%, 3/01/34

     38           46,840   
       

 

 

 
          318,573   
       

 

 

 

Natural Gas - 0.1%

       

Talent Yield Investments Ltd.

       

4.50%, 4/25/22 (b)

     490           505,631   
       

 

 

 
          824,204   
       

 

 

 

Total Corporates - Investment Grades
(cost $29,224,914)

          30,868,329   
       

 

 

 

GOVERNMENTS - TREASURIES - 6.7%

       

United States - 6.7%

       

U.S. Treasury Bonds

       

2.75%, 8/15/42

     280           256,550   

3.125%, 2/15/43-8/15/44

     1,185           1,166,595   

3.375%, 5/15/44

     601           620,326   

3.625%, 8/15/43-2/15/44

     1,833           1,981,160   

4.50%, 2/15/36

     223           275,231   

4.625%, 2/15/40

     3,320           4,204,986   

5.375%, 2/15/31

     891           1,179,322   

U.S. Treasury Notes

       

1.25%, 10/31/18

     1,115           1,101,062   

1.50%, 1/31/19

     288           286,200   

1.625%, 3/31/19-8/31/19

     822           817,474   

1.75%, 9/30/19

     1,066           1,064,385   

2.00%, 11/15/21

     645           634,972   

2.375%, 8/15/24

     2,371           2,343,586   

2.50%, 8/15/23-5/15/24

     6,943           6,948,660   

2.75%, 2/15/24

     1,597           1,634,760   
       

 

 

 

Total Governments - Treasuries
(cost $23,657,805)

          24,515,269   
       

 

 

 

MORTGAGE PASS - THROUGHS - 5.9%

       

Agency Fixed Rate 30-Year - 5.5%

       

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Gold

       

Series 2005

       

5.50%, 1/01/35

     385           432,243   

Series 2007

       

5.50%, 7/01/35

     40           44,884   

Federal National Mortgage Association

       

3.00%, 11/01/42-8/01/43

     2,608           2,575,718   

3.50%, 11/01/44, TBA

     4,807           4,899,009   


Company

   Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

3.50%, 11/01/44, TBA

     1,294           1,333,831   

4.00%, 11/25/44, TBA

     4,670           4,906,830   

4.50%, 8/01/40-4/01/44

     1,253           1,356,477   

4.50%, 10/25/44, TBA

     2,183           2,355,252   

5.00%, 12/01/39

     261           288,101   

Series 2004

       

5.50%, 2/01/34-11/01/34

     146           163,647   

Series 2007

       

5.50%, 1/01/37-8/01/37

     536           600,780   

Series 2008

       

5.50%, 8/01/37

     231           258,916   

Series 2012

       

3.00%, 11/01/42

     631           623,368   

Series 2014

       

4.50%, 2/01/44

     111           120,160   
       

 

 

 
          19,959,216   
       

 

 

 

Agency Fixed Rate 15-Year - 0.4%

       

Federal National Mortgage Association

       

3.00%, 10/01/29, TBA

     1,645           1,694,350   
       

 

 

 

Total Mortgage Pass-Throughs

       

(cost $21,406,444)

          21,653,566   
       

 

 

 

ASSET-BACKED SECURITIES - 4.7%

       

Autos - Fixed Rate - 2.9%

       

Ally Master Owner Trust

       

Series 2013-1, Class A2

       

1.00%, 2/15/18

     390           390,936   

Series 2014-1, Class A2

       

1.29%, 1/15/19

     336           335,621   

AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust

       

Series 2011-3, Class D

       

4.04%, 7/10/17

     320           329,324   

Series 2013-1, Class A2

       

0.49%, 6/08/16

     14           14,098   

Series 2013-3, Class A3

       

0.92%, 4/09/18

     670           670,286   

Series 2013-4, Class A3

       

0.96%, 4/09/18

     275           275,517   

Series 2013-5, Class A2A

       

0.65%, 3/08/17

     123           122,616   

Series 2014-1, Class A3

       

0.90%, 2/08/19

     310           308,616   

ARI Fleet Lease Trust

       

Series 2014-A, Class A2

       

0.81%, 11/15/22 (b)

     149           148,588   

Avis Budget Rental Car Funding AESOP LLC

       

Series 2014-1A, Class A

       

2.46%, 7/20/20 (b)

     705           702,068   

California Republic Auto Receivables Trust

       

Series 2014-2, Class A4

       

1.57%, 12/16/19

     203           201,753   

Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust

       

Series 2013-3, Class A2

       

1.04%, 11/21/16

     570           572,006   


Company

   Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Series 2014-1, Class B

       

2.22%, 1/22/19

     80           80,477   

Carfinance Capital Auto Trust

       

Series 2013-1A, Class A

       

1.65%, 7/17/17 (b)

     111           111,247   

Chrysler Capital Auto Receivables Trust

       

Series 2014-BA, Class A2

       

0.69%, 9/15/17 (b)

     464           463,986   

CPS Auto Receivables Trust

       

Series 2013-B, Class A

       

1.82%, 9/15/20 (b)

     214           214,144   

Series 2014-B, Class A

       

1.11%, 11/15/18 (b)

     175           174,159   

Enterprise Fleet Financing LLC

       

Series 2014-1, Class A2

       

0.87%, 9/20/19 (b)

     215           214,826   

Series 2014-2, Class A2

       

1.05%, 3/20/20 (b)

     270           269,538   

Exeter Automobile Receivables Trust

       

Series 2012-2A, Class A

       

1.30%, 6/15/17 (b)

     78           78,370   

Series 2013-1A, Class A

       

1.29%, 10/16/17 (b)

     98           98,071   

Series 2014-1A, Class A

       

1.29%, 5/15/18 (b)

     121           121,158   

Series 2014-2A, Class A

       

1.06%, 8/15/18 (b)

     116           115,711   

Flagship Credit Auto Trust

       

Series 2013-1, Class A

       

1.32%, 4/16/18 (b)

     98           97,811   

Ford Auto Securitization Trust

       

Series 2013-R1A, Class A2

       

1.676%, 9/15/16 (b)

   CAD     208           186,142   

Series 2013-R4A, Class A1

       

1.487%, 8/15/15 (b)

     28           25,167   

Series 2014-R2A, Class A1

       

1.353%, 3/15/16 (b)

     138           123,357   

Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust

       

Series 2014-B, Class A3

       

0.89%, 9/15/17

   U.S.$     244           243,746   

Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust

       

Series 2012-D, Class B

       

1.01%, 5/15/18

     155           153,950   

Series 2014-B, Class A2

       

0.47%, 3/15/17

     377           376,964   

Ford Credit Floorplan Master Owner Trust

       

Series 2013-1, Class A1

       

0.85%, 1/15/18

     279           279,510   

Series 2014-1, Class A1

       

1.20%, 2/15/19

     322           321,151   

Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust

       

Series 2014-1, Class A3

       

1.10%, 9/15/19

     270           269,521   


Company

   Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Hertz Vehicle Financing LLC

       

Series 2013-1A, Class A1

       

1.12%, 8/25/17 (b)

     345           344,532   

Huntington Auto Trust

       

Series 2011-1A, Class A3

       

1.01%, 1/15/16 (b)

     9           8,577   

Hyundai Auto Receivables Trust

       

Series 2012-B, Class C

       

1.95%, 10/15/18

     140           142,488   

Mercedes-Benz Master Owner Trust

       

Series 2012-AA, Class A

       

0.79%, 11/15/17 (b)

     714           714,992   

Santander Drive Auto Receivables Trust

       

Series 2013-4, Class A3

       

1.11%, 12/15/17

     540           541,487   

Series 2013-5, Class A2A

       

0.64%, 4/17/17

     123           122,594   

Series 2014-2, Class A3

       

0.80%, 4/16/18

     335           334,624   

Volkswagen Auto Loan Enhanced Trust

       

Series 2014-1, Class A3

       

0.91%, 10/22/18

     249           248,332   
       

 

 

 
          10,548,061   
       

 

 

 

Credit Cards - Floating Rate - 0.5%

       

Barclays Dryrock Issuance Trust

       

Series 2014-2, Class A

       

0.494%, 3/16/20 (d)

     337           337,011   

Cabela’s Master Credit Card Trust

       

Series 2012-1A, Class A2

       

0.684%, 2/18/20 (b)(d)

     325           327,421   

First National Master Note Trust

       

Series 2013-2, Class A

       

0.684%, 10/15/19 (d)

     346           347,253   

Gracechurch Card Funding PLC

       

Series 2012-1A, Class A1

       

0.854%, 2/15/17 (b)(d)

     490           490,932   

World Financial Network Credit Card Master Trust

       

Series 2014-A, Class A

       

0.534%, 12/15/19 (d)

     295           295,540   
       

 

 

 
          1,798,157   
       

 

 

 

Other ABS - Fixed Rate - 0.4%

       

CIT Equipment Collateral

       

Series 2012-VT1, Class A3

       

1.10%, 8/22/16 (b)

     2           2,003   

Series 2013-VT1, Class A3

       

1.13%, 7/20/20 (b)

     466           467,660   

CNH Capital Canada Receivables Trust

       

Series 2014-1A, Class A1

       

1.388%, 3/15/17 (b)

   CAD     227           202,547   

CNH Equipment Trust

       

Series 2012-A, Class A3

       

0.94%, 5/15/17

   U.S.$     105           105,287   


Company

   Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Series 2013-D, Class A2

       

0.49%, 3/15/17

     365           364,582   

Series 2014-B, Class A4

       

1.61%, 5/17/21

     210           208,686   

GE Equipment Small Ticket LLC

       

Series 2014-1A, Class A2

       

0.59%, 8/24/16 (b)

     307           307,168   
       

 

 

 
          1,657,933   
       

 

 

 

Credit Cards - Fixed Rate - 0.4%

       

American Express Credit Account Master Trust

       

Series 2014-2, Class A

       

1.26%, 1/15/20

     141           140,499   

Barclays Dryrock Issuance Trust

       

Series 2014-3, Class A

       

2.41%, 7/15/22

     326           325,920   

Chase Issuance Trust

       

Series 2014-A1, Class A1

       

1.15%, 1/15/19

     270           269,830   

World Financial Network Credit Card Master Trust

       

Series 2012-B, Class A

       

1.76%, 5/17/21

     310           311,221   

Series 2013-A, Class A

       

1.61%, 12/15/21

     246           243,877   

Series 2014-B, Class A

       

0.61%, 7/15/19

     138           137,975   
       

 

 

 
          1,429,322   
       

 

 

 

Autos - Floating Rate - 0.3%

       

Ally Master Owner Trust

       

Series 2014-2, Class A

       

0.524%, 1/16/18 (d)

     630           630,473   

Hertz Fleet Lease Funding LP

       

Series 2013-3, Class A

       

0.704%, 12/10/27 (b)(d)

     330           330,644   
       

 

 

 
          961,117   
       

 

 

 

Other ABS - Floating Rate - 0.1%

       

GE Dealer Floorplan Master Note Trust

       

Series 2014-1, Class A

       

0.534%, 7/20/19 (d)

     407           407,165   
       

 

 

 

Home Equity Loans - Floating Rate - 0.1%

       

GSAA Trust

       

Series 2006-5, Class 2A3

       

0.425%, 3/25/36 (d)

     389           270,668   

Residential Asset Securities Corp. Trust

       

Series 2003-KS3, Class A2

       

0.755%, 5/25/33 (d)

     1           869   
       

 

 

 
          271,537   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Home Equity Loans - Fixed Rate - 0.0%

       

Credit-Based Asset Servicing and Securitization LLC

       

Series 2003-CB1, Class AF

       

3.95%, 1/25/33

     82           81,263   
       

 

 

 

Total Asset-Backed Securities

       

(cost $17,173,767)

          17,154,555   
       

 

 

 

COMMERCIAL MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES - 3.2%

       

Non-Agency Fixed Rate CMBS - 2.7%

       

Banc of America Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2007-4, Class A1A

       

5.774%, 2/10/51

     555           609,820   

Series 2007-5, Class AM

       

5.772%, 2/10/51

     150           160,142   

BHMS Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2014-ATLS, Class AFX

       

3.601%, 7/05/33 (b)

     335           333,070   

CGRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2013-VN05, Class A

       

3.369%, 3/13/35 (b)

     495           496,302   

Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2006-C4, Class A1A

       

5.974%, 3/15/49

     262           277,082   

COBALT CMBS Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2007-C3, Class A4

       

5.97%, 5/15/46

     281           308,048   

Commercial Mortgage Loan Trust

       

Series 2008-LS1, Class A1A

       

6.241%, 12/10/49

     1,016           1,123,094   

Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates

       

Series 2013-SFS, Class A1

       

1.873%, 4/12/35 (b)

     221           215,064   

Credit Suisse First Boston Mortgage Securities Corp.

       

Series 2005-C1, Class A4

       

5.014%, 2/15/38

     155           154,896   

Extended Stay America Trust

       

Series 2013-ESH7, Class A17

       

2.295%, 12/05/31 (b)

     330           321,626   

GS Mortgage Securities Corp. II

       

Series 2013-KING, Class A

       

2.706%, 12/10/27 (b)

     496           499,656   

GS Mortgage Securities Trust

       

Series 2013-G1, Class A2

       

3.557%, 4/10/31 (b)

     276           269,843   

JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust

       

Series 2004-LN2, Class A1A

       

4.838%, 7/15/41(b)

     125           124,502   

Series 2005-CB11, Class A4

       

5.335%, 8/12/37

     147           148,507   

Series 2007-CB19, Class AM

       

5.892%, 2/12/49

     175           187,773   


Company

   Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Series 2007-LD12, Class AM

       

6.197%, 2/15/51

     280           308,376   

Series 2007-LDPX, Class A1A

       

5.439%, 1/15/49

     593           643,358   

Series 2008-C2, Class A1A

       

5.998%, 2/12/51

     271           298,657   

Series 2010-C2, Class A1

       

2.749%, 11/15/43 (b)

     277           281,637   

LB-UBS Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2006-C1, Class A4

       

5.156%, 2/15/31

     620           642,461   

LSTAR Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2014-2, Class A2

       

2.767%, 1/20/41 (b)

     188           188,340   

Merrill Lynch Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2006-C2, Class A1A

       

5.739%, 8/12/43

     318           340,916   

Merrill Lynch/Countrywide Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2006-4, Class A1A

       

5.166%, 12/12/49

     595           634,579   

Motel 6 Trust

       

Series 2012-MTL6, Class A2

       

1.948%, 10/05/25 (b)

     480           479,754   

UBS-Barclays Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2012-C3, Class A4

       

3.091%, 8/10/49

     86           84,956   

Series 2012-C4, Class A5

       

2.85%, 12/10/45

     168           163,137   

WF-RBS Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2013-C14, Class A5

       

3.337%, 6/15/46

     456           457,641   

Series 2014-C20, Class A2

       

3.036%, 5/15/47

     206           212,051   
       

 

 

 
          9,965,288   
       

 

 

 

Non-Agency Floating Rate CMBS - 0.5%

       

Commercial Mortgage Pass Through Certificates

       

Series 2014-KYO, Class A

       

1.054%, 6/11/27 (b)(d)

     208           208,596   

Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates

       

Series 2014-SAVA, Class A

       

1.304%, 6/15/34 (b)(d)

     191           191,299   

Extended Stay America Trust

       

Series 2013-ESFL, Class A2FL

       

0.856%, 12/05/31 (b)(d)

     250           249,948   

JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust

       

Series 2014-INN, Class A

       

1.074%, 6/15/29 (b)(d)

     339           338,787   

PFP III Ltd.

       

Series 2014-1, Class A

       

1.324%, 6/14/31 (b)(d)

     470           470,517   


Company

   Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Resource Capital Corp., Ltd.

       

Series 2014-CRE2, Class A

       

1.204%, 4/15/32 (b)(d)

     157           157,000   
       

 

 

 
          1,616,147   
       

 

 

 

Total Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities
(cost $11,747,917)

          11,581,435   
       

 

 

 

CORPORATES - NON-INVESTMENT GRADES - 1.5%

       

Financial Institutions – 0.9%

       

Banking – 0.9%

       

ABN AMRO Bank NV

       

4.31%, 3/10/16 (f)

   EUR     90           115,380   

Bank of Ireland

       

2.063%, 9/22/15 (d)

   CAD     185           158,991   

Barclays Bank PLC

       

6.86%, 6/15/32 (b)(f)

   U.S.$     44           48,785   

7.625%, 11/21/22

     239           256,835   

7.75%, 4/10/23

     305           330,162   

BNP Paribas SA

       

5.186%, 6/29/15 (b)(f)

     128           129,280   

Credit Agricole SA

       

7.875%, 1/23/24 (b)(f)

     205           207,050   

Danske Bank A/S

       

5.684%, 2/15/17 (f)

   GBP     182           306,114   

HBOS Capital Funding LP

       

4.939%, 5/23/16 (f)

   EUR     298           375,685   

Intesa Sanpaolo SpA

       

5.017%, 6/26/24 (b)

   U.S.$     339           330,300   

LBG Capital No.1 PLC

       

8.00%, 6/15/20 (b)(f)

     94           101,539   

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC (The)

       

9.50%, 3/16/22 (b)

     215           245,100   

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB

       

5.471%, 3/23/15 (b)(f)

     185           186,850   

Societe Generale SA

       

4.196%, 1/26/15(f)

   EUR     102           129,021   

5.922%, 4/05/17 (b)(f)

   U.S.$     100           105,500   

Unicredit Luxembourg Finance SA

       

6.00%, 10/31/17 (b)

     230           246,592   
       

 

 

 
          3,273,184   
       

 

 

 

Finance - 0.0%

       

International Lease Finance Corp.

       

5.875%, 4/01/19

     93           99,045   
       

 

 

 
          3,372,229   
       

 

 

 

Industrial - 0.5%

       

Basic – 0.0%

       

Novelis, Inc./GA

       

8.375%, 12/15/17

     29           30,160   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Communications - Media - 0.0%

       

Univision Communications, Inc.

       

6.875%, 5/15/19 (b)

     102           106,335   
       

 

 

 

Communications - Telecommunications - 0.1%

       

Sprint Corp.

       

7.875%, 9/15/23 (b)

     205           217,300   

Telecom Italia Capital SA

       

6.00%, 9/30/34

     65           63,619   
       

 

 

 
          280,919   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Cyclical - Automotive - 0.1%

       

General Motors Co.

       

3.50%, 10/02/18

     130           132,113   

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (The)

       

8.25%, 8/15/20

     60           64,200   
       

 

 

 
          196,313   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Cyclical - Other - 0.1%

       

KB Home

       

4.75%, 5/15/19

     107           104,057   

MCE Finance Ltd.

       

5.00%, 2/15/21 (b)

     210           201,600   
       

 

 

 
          305,657   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Non-Cyclical - 0.0%

       

CHS/Community Health Systems, Inc.

       

5.125%, 8/15/18

     56           57,540   
       

 

 

 

Energy - 0.1%

       

Access Midstream Partners LP/ACMP Finance Corp.

       

4.875%, 3/15/24

     129           131,902   

California Resources Corp.

       

5.50%, 9/15/21 (b)

     89           90,335   

Cimarex Energy Co.

       

4.375%, 6/01/24

     97           97,728   

Paragon Offshore PLC

       

6.75%, 7/15/22 (b)

     18           15,210   

7.25%, 8/15/24 (b)

     116           98,020   

SM Energy Co.

       

6.50%, 1/01/23

     14           14,560   
       

 

 

 
          447,755   
       

 

 

 

Services - 0.0%

       

Sabre GLBL, Inc.

       

8.50%, 5/15/19 (b)

     118           126,260   
       

 

 

 

Technology - 0.1%

       

Numericable Group SA

       

5.375%, 5/15/22 (b)

   EUR     195           254,501   
       

 

 

 

Transportation - Services - 0.0%

       

Hertz Corp. (The)

       

6.75%, 4/15/19

   U.S.$     16           16,500   
       

 

 

 
          1,821,940   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Utility - 0.1%

       

Electric - 0.1%

       

AES Corp./VA

       

7.375%, 7/01/21

     119           133,280   

NRG Energy, Inc.

       

6.25%, 5/01/24 (b)

     92           92,230   
       

 

 

 
          225,510   
       

 

 

 

Total Corporates - Non-Investment Grades
(cost $5,260,060)

          5,419,679   
       

 

 

 

INFLATION-LINKED SECURITIES - 1.1%

       

U.S. Treasury Inflation Index
0.125%, 4/15/19 (TIPS)
(cost $4,249,904)

     4,155           4,164,666   
       

 

 

 

COLLATERALIZED MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS - 0.9%

       

Non-Agency Fixed Rate - 0.4%

       

Alternative Loan Trust

       

Series 2006-24CB, Class A16

       

5.75%, 6/25/36

     220           195,948   

Series 2006-28CB, Class A14

       

6.25%, 10/25/36

     149           130,210   

Series 2006-J1, Class 1A13

       

5.50%, 2/25/36

     140           129,580   

CHL Mortgage Pass-Through Trust

       

Series 2006-10, Class 1A8

       

6.00%, 5/25/36

     131           122,949   

Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust, Inc.

       

Series 2005-2, Class 1A4

       

2.612%, 5/25/35

     31           30,392   

Countrywide Alternative Loan Trust

       

Series 2005-20CB, Class 3A6

       

5.50%, 7/25/35

     56           52,542   

Countrywide Home Loan Mortgage Pass-Through Trust

       

Series 2006-13, Class 1A18

       

6.25%, 9/25/36

     197           183,417   

Series 2006-13, Class 1A19

       

6.25%, 9/25/36

     71           65,966   

Series 2007-HYB2, Class 3A1

       

2.633%, 2/25/47

     305           255,259   

First Horizon Alternative Mortgage Securities Trust

       

Series 2006-FA3, Class A9

       

6.00%, 7/25/36

     258           218,237   

Wells Fargo Mortgage Backed Securities Trust

       

Series 2007-8, Class 2A5

       

5.75%, 7/25/37

     96           94,391   
       

 

 

 
          1,478,891   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

GSE Risk Share Floating Rate - 0.3%

       

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Structured Agency Credit Risk Debt Notes

       

Series 2013-DN2, Class M2

       

4.405%, 11/25/23 (d)

     340           357,449   

Series 2014-DN3, Class M3

       

4.157%, 8/25/24 (d)

     330           328,776   

Federal National Mortgage Association Connecticut Avenue Securities

       

Series 2014-C01, Class M2

       

4.555%, 1/25/24 (d)

     163           173,071   

Series 2014-C03, Class 1M1

       

1.355%, 7/25/24 (d)

     129           128,487   
       

 

 

 
          987,783   
       

 

 

 

Non-Agency Floating Rate - 0.2%

       

Deutsche Alt-A Securities Mortgage Loan Trust

       

Series 2006-AR4, Class A2

       

0.345%, 12/25/36 (d)

     420           259,413   

HomeBanc Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2005-1, Class A1

       

0.405%, 3/25/35 (d)

     214           192,196   

IndyMac Index Mortgage Loan Trust

       

Series 2006-AR15, Class A1

       

0.275%, 7/25/36 (d)

     310           239,608   

Series 2006-AR27, Class 2A2

       

0.355%, 10/25/36 (d)

     327           281,921   
       

 

 

 
          973,138   
       

 

 

 

Total Collateralized Mortgage Obligations
(cost $3,433,961)

          3,439,812   
       

 

 

 

QUASI-SOVEREIGNS - 0.7%

       

Quasi-Sovereign Bonds - 0.7%

       

Chile - 0.1%

       

Empresa de Transporte de Pasajeros Metro SA

       

4.75%, 2/04/24 (b)

     340           352,566   
       

 

 

 

China - 0.1%

       

Sinopec Group Overseas Development 2013 Ltd.

       

4.375%, 10/17/23 (b)

     480           492,228   
       

 

 

 

Kazakhstan - 0.1%

       

KazMunayGas National Co. JSC

       

7.00%, 5/05/20 (b)

     251           279,112   
       

 

 

 

Malaysia - 0.2%

       

Petronas Capital Ltd.

       

5.25%, 8/12/19 (b)

     460           514,327   
       

 

 

 

Mexico - 0.1%

       

Petroleos Mexicanos

       

3.50%, 7/18/18-1/30/23

     312           316,829   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

United Arab Emirates - 0.1%

       

IPIC GMTN Ltd.

       

3.75%, 3/01/17 (b)

     465           485,925   
       

 

 

 

Total Quasi-Sovereigns
(cost $2,294,284)

          2,440,987   
       

 

 

 

LOCAL GOVERNMENTS - MUNICIPAL BONDS - 0.1%

       

United States - 0.1%

       

California GO
Series 2010
7.625%, 3/01/40
(cost $350,581)

     345           503,058   
       

 

 

 

EMERGING MARKETS - CORPORATE BONDS - 0.1%

       

Industrial - 0.1%

       

Communications - Telecommunications - 0.1%

       

Comcel Trust

       

6.875%, 2/06/24 (b)

     200           211,000   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Non-Cyclical - 0.0%

       

Marfrig Overseas Ltd.

       

9.50%, 5/04/20 (b)

     195           205,725   
       

 

 

 

Total Emerging Markets - Corporate Bonds
(cost $391,211)

          416,725   
       

 

 

 

GOVERNMENTS - SOVEREIGN BONDS - 0.1%

       

Turkey - 0.1%

       

Turkey Government International Bond
4.875%, 4/16/43
(cost $271,865)

     275           247,844   
       

 

 

 

GOVERNMENTS - SOVEREIGN AGENCIES - 0.1%

       

Canada - 0.1%

       

NOVA Chemicals Corp.

       

5.25%, 8/01/23 (b)

     125           130,000   
       

 

 

 

Colombia - 0.0%

       

Ecopetrol SA

       

5.875%, 5/28/45

     94           95,880   
       

 

 

 

Total Governments - Sovereign Agencies
(cost $230,270)

          225,880   
       

 

 

 
     Shares           

PREFERRED STOCKS - 0.0%

       

Financial Institutions - 0.0%

       

Insurance - 0.0%

       

Allstate Corp. (The)

       

5.10%

(cost $179,024)

     6,700           164,083   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

WARRANTS - 0.0%

       

Financials - 0.0%

       

Real Estate Management & Development - 0.0%

       

Emaar Properties PJSC, Merrill Lynch Intl & Co., expiring 10/01/15 (a)
(cost $48,676)

     39,276         $ 123,520   
       

 

 

 

RIGHTS - 0.0%

       

Financials - 0.0%

       

Real Estate Management & Development - 0.0%

       

Country Garden Holdings Co., Ltd., , expiring 10/08/14 (a)
(cost $0)

     18,401           1,043   
       

 

 

 
     Principal
Amount
(000)
          

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 5.7%

       

Time Deposit - 4.3%

       

State Street Time Deposit
0.01%, 10/01/14
(cost $15,533,918)

     15,534           15,533,918   
       

 

 

 

Governments - Treasuries - 1.0%

       

Japan Treasury Bills
Series 468
Zero Coupon, 10/27/14
(cost $3,888,504)

   JPY     400,000           3,647,060   
       

 

 

 

Certificates of Deposit - 0.4%

       

Svenska Handelsbanken/New York
0.225%, 3/23/15
(cost $1,313,032)

   U.S.$ 1,313           1,313,032   
       

 

 

 

Total Short-Term Investments
(cost $20,735,454)

          20,494,010   
       

 

 

 

Total Investments Before Security Lending Collateral for
Securities Loaned - 103.0%
(cost $331,594,247)

          375,983,153   
       

 

 

 
     Shares           

INVESTMENTS OF CASH COLLATERAL FOR SECURITIES LOANED - 0.6%

       

Investment Companies - 0.6%

       

AllianceBernstein Exchange Reserves-Class I,
0.04% (g)(h)
(cost $2,043,001)

     2,043,001           2,043,001   
       

 

 

 


Company

           Shares              U.S. $ Value  

Total Investments - 103.6%
(cost $333,637,248) (i)

          378,026,154   

Other assets less liabilities - (3.6)% (j)

          (13,206,209
       

 

 

 

Net Assets - 100.0%

        $ 364,819,945   
       

 

 

 

FUTURES

Type

   Number
of
Contracts
     Expiration
Month
     Original
Value
   Value at
September 30,
2014
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Purchased Contracts

                 

U.S. Long Bond (CBT) Futures

     4         December 2014       556,006    $ 551,625       $ (4,381

U.S. T-Note 5 Yr (CBT) Futures

     45         December 2014       5,331,862      5,321,602         (10,260

Sold Contracts

                 

U.S. T-Note 2 Yr (CBT) Futures

     14         December 2014       3,063,792      3,063,812         (20

U.S. T-Note 10 Yr (CBT) Futures

     39         December 2014       4,885,006      4,860,984         24,022   
                 

 

 

 
            $ 9,361   
                 

 

 

 

FORWARD CURRENCY EXCHANGE CONTRACTS

 

Counterparty

   Contracts to
Deliver
(000)
     In Exchange
For
(000)
     Settlement
Date
   Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Barclays Bank PLC

     CHF         637       USD      670       11/14/14    $ 2,936   

Barclays Bank PLC

     CNY         3,350       USD      542       11/14/14      (1,301

Barclays Bank PLC

     USD         77       CNY      473       11/14/14      (114

Barclays Bank PLC

     USD         673       EUR      530       11/14/14      (3,492

Barclays Bank PLC

     USD         891       GBP      548       11/14/14      (2,935

Barclays Bank PLC

     USD         2,432       JPY      257,957       11/14/14      (78,900

Barclays Bank PLC

     JPY         99,506       USD      973       12/15/14      65,510   

BNP Paribas SA

     USD         3,736       JPY      400,000       10/27/14      (87,773

BNP Paribas SA

     USD         525       JPY      53,932       11/14/14      (32,918

BNP Paribas SA

     USD         78       KRW      79,969       11/14/14      (2,711

BNP Paribas SA

     USD         924       SEK      6,377       11/14/14      (40,466

BNP Paribas SA

     AUD         2,327       USD      2,153       12/15/14      126,774   

BNP Paribas SA

     USD         949       JPY      99,506       12/15/14      (41,342

BNP Paribas SA

     JPY         400,000       USD      3,740       1/15/15      88,287   

Citibank, NA

     EUR         534       USD      712       11/14/14      36,885   

Citibank, NA

     GBP         455       USD      742       11/14/14      4,197   

Credit Suisse International

     USD         683       NOK      4,261       11/14/14      (21,135

Credit Suisse International

     CAD         1,083       USD      988       12/15/14      22,947   

Deutsche Bank AG

     NOK         2,270       USD      353       12/15/14      964   

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

     CAD         956       USD      872       10/10/14      17,725   

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

     JPY         400,000       USD      3,905       10/27/14      256,783   

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

     CNY         945       USD      153       11/14/14      (466

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

     JPY         408,298       USD      4,016       11/14/14      291,819   

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

     USD         875       AUD      950       11/14/14      (46,120

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

     USD         2,056       GBP      1,225       11/14/14      (70,701

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

     USD         1,181       AUD      1,363       12/15/14      5,629   

HSBC Bank USA

     NZD         3,815       USD      3,101       10/31/14      130,707   

HSBC Bank USA

     USD         346       SGD      433       11/14/14      (6,529

JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA

     EUR         860       USD      1,135       10/16/14      48,254   

JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA

     USD         854       GBP      527       11/14/14      76   

JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA

     NOK         2,451       USD      380       12/15/14      (825


Counterparty

   Contracts to
Deliver
(000)
     In Exchange
For
(000)
    Settlement
Date
   Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.

   USD      586       CHF      538      11/14/14    $ (22,253

Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.

   EUR      638       USD      839      12/15/14      32,732   

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

   USD      3,064       NZD      3,815      10/31/14      (93,870

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

   GBP      481       USD      780      11/14/14      599   

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

   KRW      377,774       USD      363      11/14/14      7,072   

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

   SEK      5,675       USD      786      11/14/14      (668

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

   USD      819       EUR      644      11/14/14      (5,460

Standard Chartered Bank

   GBP      513       USD      843      11/14/14      11,963   

Standard Chartered Bank

   HKD      17,199       USD      2,219      11/14/14      4,347   

Standard Chartered Bank

   USD      356       NZD      462      12/15/14      1,871   

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      126       CAD      139      10/10/14      (2,200

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   GBP      177       USD      294      10/14/14      7,155   

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      4       EUR      3      10/16/14      (155

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   AUD      207       USD      180      11/14/14      (551

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   AUD      289       USD      269      11/14/14      16463   

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   CAD      258       USD      236      11/14/14      5,527   

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   CHF      538       USD      594      11/14/14      30,313   

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   EUR      278       USD      360      11/14/14      8,635   

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   HKD      3,700       USD      477      11/14/14      942   

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   JPY      17,803       USD      174      11/14/14      12,064   

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   NOK      6,908       USD      1,075      11/14/14      1,677   

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   NZD      188       USD      155      11/14/14      9,237   

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   SEK      2,153       USD      297      11/14/14      (1,185

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      544       AUD      589      11/14/14      (29,846

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      1,756       CHF      1,599      11/14/14      (80,250

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      199       EUR      149      11/14/14      (10,809

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      654       GBP      396      11/14/14      (11,986

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      203       HKD      1,573   11/14/14      (414

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      62       HKD      483      11/14/14      16   

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      334       JPY      34,731      11/14/14      (17,025

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      878       NOK      5,480      11/14/14      (25,916

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      248       NZD      296      11/14/14      (18,211

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      1,445       SEK      9,959      11/14/14      (64,970

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      345       SGD      428      11/14/14      (9,942

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   CAD      343       USD      313      12/15/14      7,743   

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   CHF      305       USD      321      12/15/14      1,254   

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   GBP      293       USD      478      12/15/14      2,956   


Counterparty

   Contracts to
Deliver
(000)
     In Exchange
For
(000)
     Settlement
Date
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     SEK         2,190         USD         302         12/15/14       $ (1,573

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD         136         CAD         152         12/15/14         (514

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD         333         CHF         305         12/15/14         (13,068

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD         287         EUR         226         12/15/14         (1,278

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD         353         GBP         218         12/15/14         (43

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD         158         JPY         17,284         12/15/14         (476

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD         764         NOK         4,844         12/15/14         (12,117

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD         417         NZD         507         12/15/14         (24,090

UBS AG

     EUR         1,729         USD         2,274         11/14/14         89,170   

UBS AG

     GBP         1,122         USD         1,882         11/14/14         64,184   

UBS AG

     USD         2,315         EUR         1,713         11/14/14         (150,886

UBS AG

     USD         379         NOK         2,369         12/15/14         (11,664
                 

 

 

 
                  $ 366,265   
                 

 

 

 

CENTRALLY CLEARED CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS

 

Clearing Broker/(Exchange) & Referenced Obligation

   Fixed Rate
(Pay)
Receive
    Implied Credit
Spread at
September 30, 2014
    Notional
Amount
(000)
     Market
Value
    Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Buy Contracts

           

Morgan Stanley & Co., LLC/(INTRCONX):

           

CDX-NAHY Series 21, 5 Year Index, 12/20/18*

     (5.00 )%      3.17   $ 2,871       $ (200,090   $ (102,480

CDX-NAIG Series 22, 5 Year Index, 6/20/19*

     (1.00     0.64        4,100         (66,826     (12,098
         

 

 

   

 

 

 
          $ (266,916   $ (114,578
         

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

* Termination date

CENTRALLY CLEARED INTEREST RATE SWAPS

 

                   Rate Type        

Clearing Broker/(Exchange)

   Notional
Amount
(000)
     Termination
Date
     Payments
made by
the

Fund
    Payments
received
by the
Fund
    Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Morgan Stanley & Co., LLC/(CME Group)

   NZD     1,810         9/25/19        
 
3 Month
BKBM
  
  
    4.390   $ 1,789   

Morgan Stanley & Co., LLC/(CME Group)

     1,220         9/25/24         4.628    

 

3 Month

BKBM

 

  

    (4,643
            

 

 

 
             $ (2,854
            

 

 

 


CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS

 

Swap Counterparty & Referenced Obligation

   Fixed Rate
(Pay)
Receive
     Implied Credit
Spread at
September 30, 2014
     Notional
Amount
(000)
     Market
Value
     Upfront
Premiums
Paid
(Received)
    Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Sale Contracts

                

BNP Paribas SA:

                

Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

                

5.95%, 9/15/16, 9/20/17*

     1.00         0.41         530       $ 9,197       $ (10,662   $ 19,859   

Credit Suisse International:

                

Kohl’s Corp.,

                

6.25%, 12/15/17, 6/20/19*:

     1.00         0.92         142         340         (1,811     2,151   
           

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 
            $ 9,537       $ (12,473   $ 22,010   
           

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

* Termination date

INTEREST RATE SWAPS

 

                   Rate Type       

Swap Counterparty

   Notional
Amount
(000)
     Termination
Date
     Payments
made by
the

Fund
    Payments
received
by the
Fund
   Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA

     1,970         1/30/17         1.059   3 Month LIBOR    $ (5,175

JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA

     2,200         2/07/22         2.043   3 Month LIBOR      43,136   
              $ 37,961   

 

(a) Non-income producing security.
(b) Security is exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities are considered liquid and may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At September 30, 2014, the aggregate market value of these securities amounted to $26,873,608 or 7.4% of net assets.
(c) Represents entire or partial securities out on loan.
(d) Floating Rate Security. Stated interest rate was in effect at September 30, 2014.
(e) Coupon rate adjusts periodically based upon a predetermined schedule. Stated interest rate in effect at September 30, 2014.
(f) Securities are perpetual and, thus, do not have a predetermined maturity date. The date shown, if applicable, reflects the next call date.
(g) To obtain a copy of the fund’s financial statements, please go to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov, or call AllianceBernstein at (800) 227-4618.


(h) Investment in affiliated money market mutual fund. The rate shown represents the 7-day yield as of period end.
(i) As of September 30, 2014, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $50,706,882 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(6,317,976), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $44,388,906.
(j) An amount of U.S.$35,555 has been segregated to collateralize margin requirements for the open futures contracts at September 30, 2014.

Currency Abbreviations:

 

AUD    -    Australian Dollar
CAD    -    Canadian Dollar
CHF    -    Swiss Franc
CNY    -    Chinese Yuan Renminbi
EUR    -    Euro
GBP    -    Great British Pound
HKD    -    Hong Kong Dollar
JPY    -    Japanese Yen
KRW    -    South Korean Won
NOK    -    Norwegian Krone
NZD    -    New Zealand Dollar
SEK    -    Swedish Krona
SGD    -    Singapore Dollar
USD    -    United States Dollar

 

Glossary:

ABS    -    Asset-Backed Securities
ADR    -    American Depositary Receipt
ARMs    -    Adjustable Rate Mortgages
BKBM    -    Bank Bill Benchmark (New Zealand)
CBT    -    Chicago Board of Trade
CFC    -    Customer Facility Charge
CMBS    -    Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities
CME    -    Chicago Mercantile Exchange
GDR    -    Global Depositary Receipt
GO    -    General Obligation
GSE    -    Government-Sponsored Enterprise
INTRCONX    -    Inter-Continental Exchange
JSC    -    Joint Stock Company
LIBOR    -    London Interbank Offered Rates
NVDR    -    Non Voting Depositary Receipt
OJSC    -    Open Joint Stock Company
PJSC    -    Public Joint Stock Company
REG    -    Registered Shares
REIT    -    Real Estate Investment Trust
TBA    -    To Be Announced
TIPS    -    Treasury Inflation Protected Security


AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

Balanced Wealth Strategy Portfolio

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized below.

 

   

Level 1—quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

   

Level 2—other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)

   

Level 3—significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

The fair value of debt instruments, such as bonds, and over-the-counter derivatives is generally based on market price quotations, recently executed market transactions (where observable) or industry recognized modeling techniques and are generally classified as Level 2. Pricing vendor inputs to Level 2 valuations may include quoted prices for similar investments in active markets, interest rate curves, coupon rates, currency rates, yield curves, option adjusted spreads, default rates, credit spreads and other unique security features in order to estimate the relevant cash flows which is then discounted to calculate fair values. If these inputs are unobservable and significant to the fair value, these investments will be classified as Level 3.

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

Options and warrants are valued using market-based inputs to models, broker or dealer quotations, or alternative pricing sources with reasonable levels of price transparency, where such inputs and models are available. Alternatively the values may be obtained through unobservable management determined inputs and/or management’s proprietary models. Where models are used, the selection of a particular model to value an option or a warrant depends upon the contractual terms of, and specific risks inherent in, the option or warrant as well as the availability of pricing information in the market. Valuation models require a variety of inputs, including contractual terms, market prices, measures of volatility and correlations of such inputs. Exchange traded options will be classified as Level 2. For options or warrants that do not trade on exchange but trade in liquid markets, inputs can generally be verified and model selection does not involve significant management judgment. Options and warrants are classified within Level 2 on the fair value hierarchy when all of the significant inputs can be corroborated to market evidence. Otherwise such instruments are classified as Level 3

Valuations of mortgage-backed or other asset backed securities, by pricing vendors, are based on both proprietary and industry recognized models and discounted cash flow techniques. Significant inputs to the valuation of these instruments are value of the collateral, the rates and timing of delinquencies, the rates and timing of prepayments, and default and loss expectations, which are driven in part by housing prices for residential mortgages. Significant inputs are determined based on relative value analyses, which incorporate comparisons to instruments with similar collateral and risk profiles, including relevant indices. Mortgage and asset backed securities for which management has collected current observable data through pricing services are generally categorized within Level 2. Those investments for which current observable data has not been provided are classified as Level 3.

Other fixed income investments, including non-U.S. government and corporate debt, are generally valued using quoted market prices, if available, which are typically impacted by current interest rates, maturity dates and any perceived credit risk of the issuer. Additionally, in the absence of quoted market prices, these inputs are used by pricing vendors to derive a valuation based upon industry or proprietary models which incorporate issuer specific data with relevant yield/spread comparisons with more widely quoted bonds with similar key characteristics. Those investments for which there are observable inputs are classified as Level 2. Where the inputs are not observable, the investments are classified as Level 3.

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2014:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1      Level 2      Level 3     Total  

Assets:

          

Common Stock:

        

Financials

   $     23,108,790       $     13,286,921       $             – 0  –    $     36,395,711   

Consumer Discretionary

     26,231,254         8,734,457         – 0  –      34,965,711   

Information Technology

     29,192,088         3,107,218         – 0  –      32,299,306   

Health Care

     21,301,762         4,711,700         – 0  –      26,013,462   


Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Industrials

     12,559,704        9,969,483        – 0  –      22,529,187   

Consumer Staples

     11,098,952        4,442,831        – 0  –      15,541,783   

Energy

     12,453,955        1,963,278        – 0  –      14,417,233   

Equity: Other

     5,602,499        6,903,777        – 0  –      12,506,276   

Retail

     4,347,366        3,293,974        – 0  –      7,641,340   

Materials

     3,160,444        3,347,263        – 0  –      6,507,707   

Residential

     3,050,604        2,438,804        – 0  –      5,489,408   

Office

     3,051,320        2,079,933        – 0  –      5,131,253   

Utilities

     3,820,676        974,463        – 0  –      4,795,139   

Telecommunication Services

     1,961,917        2,653,384        – 0  –      4,615,301   

Lodging

     3,018,561        153,535        – 0  –      3,172,096   

Financial: Other

     278,499        – 0  –      – 0  –      278,499   

Mortgage

     269,280        – 0  –      – 0  –      269,280   

Corporates - Investment Grades

     – 0  –      30,868,329        – 0  –      30,868,329   

Governments - Treasuries

     – 0  –      24,515,269        – 0  –      24,515,269   

Mortgage Pass-Throughs

     – 0  –      21,653,566        – 0  –      21,653,566   

Asset-Backed Securities

     – 0  –      14,466,827        2,687,728        17,154,555   

Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities

     – 0  –      9,503,393        2,078,042        11,581,435   

Corporates - Non-Investment Grades

     – 0  –      5,419,679        – 0  –      5,419,679   

Inflation-Linked Securities

     – 0  –      4,164,666        – 0  –      4,164,666   

Collateralized Mortgage Obligations

     – 0  –      – 0  –      3,439,812        3,439,812   

Quasi-Sovereigns

     – 0  –      2,440,987        – 0  –      2,440,987   

Local Governments - Municipal Bonds

     – 0  –      503,058        – 0  –      503,058   

Emerging Markets - Corporate Bonds

     – 0  –      416,725        – 0  –      416,725   

Governments - Sovereign Bonds

     – 0  –      247,844        – 0  –      247,844   

Governments - Sovereign Agencies

     – 0  –      225,880        – 0  –      225,880   

Preferred Stocks

     164,083        – 0  –      – 0  –      164,083   

Warrants

     – 0  –      123,520        – 0  –      123,520   

Rights

     1,043        – 0  –      – 0  –      1,043   

Short-Term Investments:

        

Time Deposits

     – 0  –      15,533,918        – 0  –      15,533,918   

Mortgage

     – 0  –      3,647,060        – 0  –      3,647,060   

Certificates of Deposit

     – 0  –      1,313,032        – 0  –      1,313,032   

Investments of Cash Collateral for Securities Loaned in Affiliated Money Market Fund

     2,043,001        – 0  –      – 0  –      2,043,001   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     166,715,798        203,104,774        8,205,582        378,026,154   

Other Financial Instruments* :

        

Assets:

        

Futures

     24,022        – 0  –      – 0  –      24,022   

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      1,415,413        – 0  –      1,415,413   

Centrally Cleared Interest Rate Swaps

     – 0  –      1,789        – 0  –      1,789   

Credit Default Swaps

     – 0  –      22,010        – 0  –      22,010   

Interest Rate Swaps

     – 0  –      43,136        – 0  –      43,136   

Liabilities:

        

Futures

     (14,661     – 0  –      – 0  –      (14,661

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      (1,049,148     – 0  –      (1,049,148

Centrally Cleared Default Swaps

     – 0  –      (114,578     – 0  –      (114,578

Centrally Cleared Interest Rate Swaps

     – 0  –      (4,643     – 0  –      (4,643

Interest Rate Swaps

     – 0  –      (5,175     – 0  –      (5,175
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total^

   $     166,725,159      $     203,413,578      $     8,205,582      $     378,344,319   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

* Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/depreciation on the instrument.
^ There were de minimis transfers under 1% of net assets between Level 1 and Level 2 during the reporting period.

The Portfolio recognizes all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.


The following is a reconciliation of investments in which significant unobservable inputs (Level 3) were used in determining fair value.

 

     Asset-Backed
Securities
    Commercial
Mortgage-Backed
Securities
    Collateralized
Mortgage
Obligations
 

Balance as of 12/31/13

   $ 2,233,195      $ 845,923      $ 1,527,063   

Accrued discounts/(premiums)

     4,813        (3,512     13,038   

Realized gain (loss)

     9,378        3,916        3,640   

Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation

     (5,226     (34,867     70,551   

Purchases

     1,443,923        1,505,874        1,969,041   

Sales

     (998,355     (239,292     (143,521

Transfers in to Level 3

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 

Transfers out of Level 3

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Balance as of 9/30/14

   $ 2,687,728      $ 2,078,042      $ 3,439,812   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation from Investments held as of 9/30/14

   $ (4,937   $ (33,399   $ 70,583   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 
     Total              

Balance as of 12/31/13

   $ 4,606,181       

Accrued discounts/(premiums)

     14,339       

Realized gain (loss)

     16,934       

Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation

     30,458       

Purchases

     4,918,838       

Sales

     (1,381,168    

Transfers in to Level 3

     – 0  –     

Transfers out of Level 3

     – 0  –     
  

 

 

     

Balance as of 9/30/14

   $ 8,205,582       
  

 

 

     

Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation from Investments held as of 9/30/14

   $ 32,247       
  

 

 

     

The Adviser has established a Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) which is responsible for overseeing the pricing and valuation of all securities held in the Portfolio. The Committee operates under pricing and valuation policies and procedures established by the Adviser and approved by the Board, including pricing policies which set forth the mechanisms and processes to be employed on a daily basis to implement these policies and procedures. In particular, the pricing policies describe how to determine market quotations for securities and other instruments. The Committee’s responsibilities include: 1) fair value and liquidity determinations (and oversight of any third parties to whom any responsibility for fair value and liquidity determinations is delegated), and 2) regular monitoring of the Adviser’s pricing and valuation policies and procedures and modification or enhancement of these policies and procedures (or recommendation of the modification of these policies and procedures) as the Committee believes appropriate.

The Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of the pricing policies by the Adviser’s Pricing Group (the “Pricing Group”) and a third party which performs certain pricing functions in accordance with the pricing policies. The Pricing Group is responsible for the oversight of the third party on a day-to-day basis. The Committee and the Pricing Group perform a series of activities to provide reasonable assurance of the accuracy of prices including: 1) periodic vendor due diligence meetings, review of methodologies, new developments and process at vendors, 2) daily compare of security valuation versus prior day for all securities that exceeded established thresholds, and 3) daily review of unpriced, stale, and variance reports with exceptions reviewed by senior management and the Committee.

In addition, several processes outside of the pricing process are used to monitor valuation issues including: 1) performance and performance attribution reports are monitored for anomalous impacts based upon benchmark performance, and 2) portfolio managers review all portfolios for performance and analytics (which are generated using the Adviser’s prices).


AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

Dynamic Asset Allocation Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

 

Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

COMMON STOCKS - 27.2%

       

Financials - 5.6%

       

Banks - 2.6%

       

Aozora Bank Ltd.

     6,000         $ 20,288   

Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd.

     12,253           331,225   

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA

     25,822           310,780   

Banco Comercial Portugues SA (a)

     159,486           20,825   

Banco de Sabadell SA

     15,417           45,522   

Banco Espirito Santo SA (a)(b)(c)(d)

     10,016           0   

Banco Popular Espanol SA

     7,493           45,702   

Banco Santander SA

     54,297           519,819   

Bank Hapoalim BM

     4,812           27,132   

Bank Leumi Le-Israel BM (a)

     6,125           24,807   

Bank of America Corp.

     39,445           672,537   

Bank of East Asia Ltd.

     9,600           38,948   

Bank of Ireland (a)

     104,450           40,838   

Bank of Kyoto Ltd. (The)

     2,000           16,619   

Bank of Yokohama Ltd. (The)

     5,000           27,494   

Bankia SA (a)

     22,531           41,916   

Barclays PLC

     73,537           270,482   

BB&T Corp.

     2,700           100,467   

Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Ltd.

     3,446           35,942   

BNP Paribas SA

     4,761           315,979   

BOC Hong Kong Holdings Ltd.

     10,000           31,834   

CaixaBank SA

     7,628           46,382   

Chiba Bank Ltd. (The)

     3,000           20,869   

Citigroup, Inc.

     11,379           589,660   

Comerica, Inc.

     650           32,409   

Commerzbank AG (a)

     4,351           64,608   

Commonwealth Bank of Australia

     7,198           473,935   

Credit Agricole SA

     4,188           63,128   

Danske Bank A/S

     2,928           79,371   

DBS Group Holdings Ltd.

     8,000           115,380   

DnB ASA

     4,364           81,668   

Erste Group Bank AG

     1,151           26,280   

Fifth Third Bancorp

     3,090           61,862   

Fukuoka Financial Group, Inc.

     4,000           19,081   

Hang Seng Bank Ltd.

     2,100           33,725   

HSBC Holdings PLC

     84,291           856,505   

Huntington Bancshares, Inc./OH

     3,015           29,336   

ING Groep NV (a)

     17,105           243,134   

Intesa Sanpaolo SpA

     52,270           157,789   

Joyo Bank Ltd. (The)

     3,000           14,766   

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

     14,115           850,288   

KBC Groep NV (a)

     1,196           63,491   

KeyCorp

     3,275           43,656   

Lloyds Banking Group PLC (a)

     256,785           319,458   

M&T Bank Corp.

     515           63,494   

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.

     56,900           320,672   

Mizrahi Tefahot Bank Ltd. (a)

     973           11,631   

Mizuho Financial Group, Inc.

     102,500           182,982   

National Australia Bank Ltd.

     10,463           297,606   

Natixis

     9,006           61,961   

Nordea Bank AB

     12,659           164,104   

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp., Ltd.

     12,000           91,540   

PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (The)

     2,030           173,727   

Raiffeisen Bank International AG

     527           11,417   

Regions Financial Corp.

     5,025           50,451   


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Resona Holdings, Inc.

     8,400           47,388   

Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC (a)

     9,565           56,985   

Seven Bank Ltd.

     5,324           21,697   

Shinsei Bank Ltd.

     12,000           25,757   

Shizuoka Bank Ltd. (The)

     4,000           41,186   

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB-Class A

     4,967           66,084   

Societe Generale SA

     3,136           159,961   

Standard Chartered PLC

     10,809           199,371   

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.

     5,700           232,243   

Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings, Inc.

     15,000           62,452   

SunTrust Banks, Inc.

     1,990           75,680   

Suruga Bank Ltd.

     1,000           19,952   

Svenska Handelsbanken AB-Class A

     2,228           104,341   

Swedbank AB-Class A

     4,044           101,405   

UniCredit SpA

     19,853           155,963   

Unione di Banche Italiane SCpA

     5,202           43,478   

United Overseas Bank Ltd.

     6,000           105,184   

US Bancorp/MN

     6,765           282,980   

Wells Fargo & Co.

     17,825           924,583   

Westpac Banking Corp.

     13,859           389,070   

Zions Bancorporation

     730           21,214   
       

 

 

 
          11,792,496   
       

 

 

 

Capital Markets - 0.6%

       

3i Group PLC

     4,278           26,494   

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC

     3,678           23,729   

Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. (a)

     207           41,475   

Ameriprise Financial, Inc.

     695           85,749   

Bank of New York Mellon Corp. (The)

     4,215           163,247   

BlackRock, Inc.-Class A

     477           156,609   

Charles Schwab Corp. (The)

     4,290           126,083   

Credit Suisse Group AG (a)

     6,750           186,743   

Daiwa Securities Group, Inc.

     7,000           55,515   

Deutsche Bank AG (REG)

     5,812           202,941   

E*Trade Financial Corp. (a)

     1,020           23,042   

Franklin Resources, Inc.

     1,470           80,277   

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The)

     1,538           282,331   

Hargreaves Lansdown PLC

     1,481           22,602   

ICAP PLC

     4,211           26,335   

Invesco Ltd.

     1,580           62,378   

Investec PLC

     2,464           20,689   

Julius Baer Group Ltd. (a)

     1,220           54,518   

Legg Mason, Inc.

     360           18,418   

Macquarie Group Ltd.

     1,286           64,711   

Mediobanca SpA (a)

     3,505           29,946   

Morgan Stanley

     5,720           197,740   

Nomura Holdings, Inc.

     16,200           96,379   

Northern Trust Corp.

     810           55,104   

Partners Group Holding AG

     158           41,528   

Schroders PLC

     729           28,147   

State Street Corp.

     1,585           116,672   

T Rowe Price Group, Inc.

     975           76,440   

UBS AG (REG) (a)

     16,277           282,940   
       

 

 

 
          2,648,782   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Consumer Finance - 0.2%

       

Acom Co., Ltd. (a)(d)

     6,200           20,741   

AEON Financial Service Co., Ltd. (d)

     800           17,119   

American Express Co.

     3,360           294,134   

Capital One Financial Corp.

     2,113           172,463   

Credit Saison Co., Ltd.

     700           13,489   

Discover Financial Services

     1,710           110,107   

Navient Corp.

     1,500           26,565   
       

 

 

 
          654,618   
       

 

 

 

Diversified Financial Services - 0.4%

       

ASX Ltd.

     1,453           45,570   

Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.-Class B (a)

     6,830           943,496   

CME Group, Inc./IL-Class A

     1,200           95,946   

Deutsche Boerse AG

     862           57,884   

Eurazeo SA

     422           30,347   

Exor SpA

     1,279           49,445   

Groupe Bruxelles Lambert SA

     360           32,975   

Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Ltd.

     4,900           105,593   

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.

     466           90,893   

Investment AB Kinnevik-Class B

     2,015           72,662   

Investor AB-Class B

     1,705           60,032   

Japan Exchange Group, Inc. (d)

     900           21,363   

Leucadia National Corp.

     1,105           26,343   

London Stock Exchange Group PLC

     969           29,242   

McGraw Hill Financial, Inc.

     1,010           85,295   

Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance Co., Ltd. (d)

     3,500           18,304   

Moody’s Corp.

     695           65,678   

NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. (The)

     410           17,392   

ORIX Corp.

     5,580           77,034   

Pargesa Holding SA

     255           20,268   

Singapore Exchange Ltd.

     3,000           16,985   

Wendel SA

     398           45,105   
       

 

 

 
          2,007,852   
       

 

 

 

Insurance - 1.0%

       

ACE Ltd.

     1,285           134,758   

Admiral Group PLC

     819           16,985   

Aegon NV

     6,317           52,015   

Aflac, Inc.

     1,705           99,316   

Ageas

     943           31,264   

AIA Group Ltd.

     53,781           277,550   

Allianz SE

     2,036           328,675   

Allstate Corp. (The)

     1,600           98,192   

American International Group, Inc.

     5,352           289,115   

AMP Ltd.

     13,149           62,717   

Aon PLC

     1,115           97,752   

Assicurazioni Generali SpA

     5,214           109,322   

Assurant, Inc.

     260           16,718   

Aviva PLC

     13,159           111,326   

Chubb Corp. (The)

     910           82,883   

Cincinnati Financial Corp.

     560           26,348   

CNP Assurances

     1,570           29,553   

Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co., Ltd. (The)

     3,800           56,448   

Direct Line Insurance Group PLC

     6,949           33,073   

Friends Life Group Ltd.

     6,320           31,474   

Genworth Financial, Inc.-Class A (a)

     1,785           23,383   

Gjensidige Forsikring ASA

     1,479           31,285   

Hannover Rueck SE

     377           30,427   

Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (The)

     1,675           62,394   


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Insurance Australia Group Ltd.

     10,333           55,378   

Legal & General Group PLC

     26,411           97,729   

Lincoln National Corp.

     990           53,044   

Loews Corp.

     1,140           47,492   

Mapfre SA

     3,353           11,851   

Marsh & McLennan Cos., Inc.

     2,040           106,774   

MetLife, Inc.

     4,220           226,698   

MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings, Inc.

     2,300           50,168   

Muenchener Rueckversicherungs AG

     801           158,011   

Old Mutual PLC

     21,822           64,010   

Principal Financial Group, Inc.

     1,040           54,569   

Progressive Corp. (The)

     1,995           50,434   

Prudential Financial, Inc.

     1,715           150,817   

Prudential PLC

     11,428           254,060   

QBE Insurance Group Ltd.

     5,358           54,565   

RSA Insurance Group PLC (a)

     4,554           35,769   

Sampo Oyj-Class A

     2,010           97,186   

SCOR SE

     935           29,203   

Sompo Japan Nipponkoa Holdings, Inc.

     1,000           24,259   

Sony Financial Holdings, Inc.

     875           14,153   

Standard Life PLC

     10,591           70,866   

Suncorp Group Ltd.

     5,745           70,614   

Swiss Life Holding AG (a)

     249           59,335   

Swiss Re AG (a)

     1,573           125,183   

T&D Holdings, Inc.

     2,600           33,410   

Tokio Marine Holdings, Inc.

     3,100           96,185   

Torchmark Corp.

     502           26,290   

Travelers Cos., Inc. (The)

     1,280           120,243   

Tryg A/S

     42           4,357   

UnipolSai SpA

     4,035           11,359   

Unum Group

     920           31,630   

Vienna Insurance Group AG Wiener Versicherung Gruppe

     190           8,559   

XL Group PLC

     960           31,843   

Zurich Insurance Group AG (a)

     662           197,013   
       

 

 

 
          4,656,030   
       

 

 

 

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) - 0.5%

       

American Tower Corp.

     1,515           141,849   

Apartment Investment & Management Co.-Class A

     525           16,706   

AvalonBay Communities, Inc.

     495           69,780   

Boston Properties, Inc.

     600           69,456   

British Land Co. PLC

     4,209           47,828   

CapitaMall Trust

     14,000           20,952   

CFS Retail Property Trust Group

     11,279           19,691   

Crown Castle International Corp.

     1,270           102,273   

Dexus Property Group

     23,282           22,605   

Equity Residential

     1,340           82,517   

Essex Property Trust, Inc.

     228           40,755   

Fonciere Des Regions

     329           29,649   

Gecina SA

     253           33,175   

General Growth Properties, Inc.

     2,344           55,201   

Goodman Group

     5,915           26,731   

GPT Group (The)

     6,698           22,683   

Hammerson PLC

     3,205           29,754   

HCP, Inc.

     1,680           66,713   

Health Care REIT, Inc.

     1,225           76,403   

Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.

     2,750           58,658   


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

ICADE

     449           37,914   

Intu Properties PLC

     3,529           18,385   

Japan Real Estate Investment Corp.

     4           20,573   

Japan Retail Fund Investment Corp.

     8           16,126   

Kimco Realty Corp.

     1,480           32,427   

Klepierre

     695           30,401   

Land Securities Group PLC

     3,497           58,716   

Link REIT (The)

     6,000           34,662   

Macerich Co. (The)

     510           32,553   

Mirvac Group

     12,834           19,306   

Nippon Building Fund, Inc.

     6           31,594   

Nippon Prologis REIT, Inc.

     5           11,625   

Plum Creek Timber Co., Inc.

     630           24,576   

ProLogis, Inc.

     1,870           70,499   

Public Storage

     580           96,187   

Scentre Group (a)

     33,577           96,608   

Segro PLC

     3,337           19,586   

Simon Property Group, Inc.

     1,166           191,714   

Stockland

     6,911           23,876   

Unibail-Rodamco SE

     613           157,638   

United Urban Investment Corp.

     12           18,418   

Ventas, Inc.

     1,091           67,587   

Vornado Realty Trust

     685           68,473   

Westfield Corp.

     9,308           60,652   

Weyerhaeuser Co.

     1,940           61,808   
       

 

 

 
          2,335,283   
       

 

 

 

Real Estate Management & Development - 0.3%

       

Aeon Mall Co., Ltd.

     700           13,372   

CapitaLand Ltd.

     11,000           27,558   

CBRE Group, Inc.-Class A (a)

     1,015           30,186   

Cheung Kong Holdings Ltd.

     6,000           98,622   

City Developments Ltd.

     3,000           22,599   

Daito Trust Construction Co., Ltd.

     300           35,476   

Daiwa House Industry Co., Ltd.

     3,000           53,895   

Deutsche Wohnen AG

     1,334           28,412   

Global Logistic Properties Ltd.

     14,661           31,119   

Hang Lung Properties Ltd.

     14,000           39,703   

Henderson Land Development Co., Ltd.

     4,840           31,333   

Hulic Co., Ltd.

     2,197           23,270   

IMMOFINANZ AG (a)

     4,285           12,161   

Kerry Properties Ltd.

     8,500           28,387   

Lend Lease Group

     3,450           43,318   

Mitsubishi Estate Co., Ltd.

     6,000           135,224   

Mitsui Fudosan Co., Ltd.

     4,000           122,754   

New World Development Co., Ltd.

     22,000           25,629   

Nomura Real Estate Holdings, Inc.

     800           13,758   

NTT Urban Development Corp. (d)

     1,600           16,822   

Sino Land Co., Ltd.

     16,000           24,787   

Sumitomo Realty & Development Co., Ltd.

     2,000           71,255   

Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd.

     7,000           99,324   

Swire Pacific Ltd.-Class A

     2,000           25,796   

Swire Properties Ltd.

     25,389           79,269   

Tokyo Tatemono Co., Ltd.

     3,000           24,309   

Tokyu Fudosan Holdings Corp.

     2,000           13,731   

Wharf Holdings Ltd. (The)

     4,000           28,437   

Wheelock & Co., Ltd.

     6,000           28,659   
       

 

 

 
          1,229,165   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Thrifts & Mortgage Finance - 0.0%

       

Hudson City Bancorp, Inc.

     1,730           16,815   

People’s United Financial, Inc.

     1,015           14,687   
       

 

 

 
          31,502   
       

 

 

 
          25,355,728   
       

 

 

 

Health Care - 3.5%

       

Biotechnology - 0.5%

       

Actelion Ltd. (REG) (a)

     608           71,213   

Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)

     780           129,340   

Amgen, Inc.

     2,853           400,732   

Biogen Idec, Inc. (a)

     915           302,691   

Celgene Corp. (a)

     3,030           287,183   

CSL Ltd.

     2,196           142,357   

Gilead Sciences, Inc. (a)

     5,680           604,636   

Grifols SA

     757           30,936   

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)

     290           104,551   

Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)

     907           101,865   
       

 

 

 
          2,175,504   
       

 

 

 

Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 0.4%

       

Abbott Laboratories

     5,615           233,528   

Baxter International, Inc.

     2,030           145,693   

Becton Dickinson and Co.

     730           83,081   

Boston Scientific Corp. (a)

     4,860           57,397   

CareFusion Corp. (a)

     740           33,485   

Coloplast A/S-Class B

     496           41,480   

Covidien PLC

     1,725           149,230   

CR Bard, Inc.

     315           44,954   

DENTSPLY International, Inc.

     530           24,168   

Edwards Lifesciences Corp. (a)

     395           40,349   

Essilor International SA

     954           104,623   

Getinge AB-Class B

     2,013           50,541   

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (a)

     155           71,582   

Medtronic, Inc.

     3,660           226,737   

Olympus Corp. (a)

     900           32,275   

Smith & Nephew PLC

     4,018           67,589   

Sonova Holding AG

     351           55,926   

St Jude Medical, Inc.

     1,065           64,038   

Stryker Corp.

     1,125           90,844   

Sysmex Corp. (d)

     400           16,108   

Terumo Corp.

     1,400           33,588   

Varian Medical Systems, Inc. (a)

     395           31,647   

William Demant Holding A/S (a)

     158           12,120   

Zimmer Holdings, Inc.

     635           63,849   
       

 

 

 
          1,774,832   
       

 

 

 

Health Care Providers & Services - 0.4%

       

Aetna, Inc.

     1,317           106,677   

AmerisourceBergen Corp.-Class A

     785           60,680   

Cardinal Health, Inc.

     1,245           93,275   

CIGNA Corp.

     1,015           92,050   

DaVita HealthCare Partners, Inc. (a)

     650           47,541   

Express Scripts Holding Co. (a)

     2,789           196,987   


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co. KGaA

     961           66,939   

Fresenius SE & Co. KGaA

     1,674           82,644   

Humana, Inc.

     565           73,614   

Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings (a)

     325           33,069   

McKesson Corp.

     865           168,390   

Medipal Holdings Corp.

     1,500           18,232   

Patterson Cos., Inc.

     310           12,843   

Quest Diagnostics, Inc.

     550           33,374   

Ramsay Health Care Ltd.

     1,156           50,656   

Ryman Healthcare Ltd.

     1,663           10,134   

Sonic Healthcare Ltd.

     1,715           26,316   

Suzuken Co., Ltd./Aichi Japan

     600           17,285   

Tenet Healthcare Corp. (a)

     343           20,371   

UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

     3,635           313,519   

Universal Health Services, Inc.-Class B

     350           36,575   

WellPoint, Inc.

     1,050           125,601   
       

 

 

 
          1,686,772   
       

 

 

 

Health Care Technology - 0.0%

       

Cerner Corp. (a)

     1,130           67,314   

M3, Inc.

     1,200           19,244   
       

 

 

 
          86,558   
       

 

 

 

Life Sciences Tools & Services - 0.1%

       

Agilent Technologies, Inc.

     1,245           70,940   

PerkinElmer, Inc.

     405           17,658   

QIAGEN NV (a)

     2,306           52,242   

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.

     1,485           180,725   

Waters Corp. (a)

     345           34,196   
       

 

 

 
          355,761   
       

 

 

 

Pharmaceuticals - 2.1%

       

AbbVie, Inc.

     5,945           343,383   

Actavis PLC (a)

     1,023           246,829   

Allergan, Inc./United States

     1,150           204,918   

Astellas Pharma, Inc.

     9,500           141,489   

AstraZeneca PLC

     5,591           400,667   

Bayer AG

     3,693           513,838   

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

     6,215           318,084   

Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

     1,000           28,946   

Daiichi Sankyo Co., Ltd.

     3,000           47,142   

Eisai Co., Ltd. (d)

     1,100           44,493   

Eli Lilly & Co.

     3,665           237,675   

GlaxoSmithKline PLC

     21,996           502,480   

Hisamitsu Pharmaceutical Co., Inc.

     300           10,774   

Hospira, Inc. (a)

     630           32,779   

Johnson & Johnson

     10,605           1,130,387   

Kyowa Hakko Kirin Co., Ltd.

     1,000           12,300   

Mallinckrodt PLC (a)

     424           38,224   

Merck & Co., Inc.

     10,805           640,520   

Merck KGaA

     408           37,501   

Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corp.

     1,000           14,674   

Mylan, Inc./PA (a)

     1,405           63,913   

Novartis AG

     10,271           967,203   

Novo Nordisk A/S-Class B

     8,890           423,269   

Ono Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

     400           35,519   

Orion Oyj-Class B

     465           18,156   


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Otsuka Holdings Co., Ltd.

     1,619           55,804   

Perrigo Co. PLC

     522           78,399   

Pfizer, Inc.

     23,786           703,352   

Roche Holding AG

     3,137           926,365   

Sanofi

     5,321           601,649   

Santen Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.

     500           28,000   

Shionogi & Co., Ltd.

     1,000           22,951   

Shire PLC

     2,646           228,301   

Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma Co., Ltd. (d)

     1,400           17,861   

Taisho Pharmaceutical Holdings Co., Ltd.

     172           11,773   

Takeda Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. (d)

     3,500           152,153   

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

     3,794           204,194   

UCB SA

     579           52,465   

Zoetis, Inc.

     1,846           68,210   
       

 

 

 
          9,606,640   
       

 

 

 
          15,686,067   
       

 

 

 

Information Technology - 3.4%

       

Communications Equipment - 0.3%

       

Alcatel-Lucent (a)

     12,407           38,267   

Cisco Systems, Inc.

     19,090           480,495   

F5 Networks, Inc. (a)

     280           33,247   

Harris Corp.

     395           26,228   

Juniper Networks, Inc.

     1,490           33,003   

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

     845           53,472   

QUALCOMM, Inc.

     6,270           468,808   

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson-Class B

     13,589           171,342   
       

 

 

 
          1,304,862   
       

 

 

 

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components - 0.2%

       

Amphenol Corp.-Class A

     575           57,419   

Corning, Inc.

     4,805           92,929   

FLIR Systems, Inc.

     510           15,983   

Fujifilm Holdings Corp.

     2,100           64,527   

Hamamatsu Photonics KK

     600           28,509   

Hexagon AB-Class B

     938           29,660   

Hirose Electric Co., Ltd.

     100           12,346   

Hitachi High-Technologies Corp.

     600           17,255   

Hitachi Ltd.

     22,000           168,081   

Hoya Corp.

     1,900           63,802   

Jabil Circuit, Inc.

     675           13,615   

Keyence Corp.

     200           86,837   

Kyocera Corp.

     1,400           65,390   

Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

     900           102,299   

Omron Corp.

     900           40,903   

TDK Corp.

     900           50,346   

TE Connectivity Ltd.

     1,510           83,488   

Yokogawa Electric Corp.

     1,100           14,463   
       

 

 

 
          1,007,852   
       

 

 

 

Internet Software & Services - 0.5%

       

Akamai Technologies, Inc. (a)

     655           39,169   

Dena Co., Ltd. (d)

     529           6,725   

eBay, Inc. (a)

     4,235           239,828   

Facebook, Inc.-Class A (a)

     7,300           576,992   

Google, Inc.-Class A (a)

     1,089           640,778   


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Google, Inc.-Class C (a)

     1,089           628,745   

Kakaku.com, Inc.

     961           13,650   

United Internet AG

     1,223           51,927   

VeriSign, Inc. (a)

     425           23,426   

Yahoo Japan Corp.

     6,408           24,357   

Yahoo!, Inc. (a)

     3,465           141,199   
       

 

 

 
          2,386,796   
       

 

 

 

IT Services - 0.5%

       

Accenture PLC-Class A

     2,385           193,948   

Alliance Data Systems Corp. (a)

     230           57,102   

Amadeus IT Holding SA-Class A

     1,699           63,426   

Automatic Data Processing, Inc.

     1,820           151,206   

Cap Gemini SA

     854           61,243   

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp.-Class A (a)

     2,280           102,076   

Computer Sciences Corp.

     540           33,021   

Computershare Ltd.

     1,449           15,408   

Fidelity National Information Services, Inc.

     1,070           60,241   

Fiserv, Inc. (a)

     950           61,403   

Fujitsu Ltd.

     8,000           49,237   

International Business Machines Corp.

     3,476           659,849   

MasterCard, Inc.-Class A

     3,710           274,243   

Nomura Research Institute Ltd.

     600           19,404   

NTT Data Corp.

     500           18,036   

Otsuka Corp.

     600           23,890   

Paychex, Inc.

     1,195           52,819   

Teradata Corp. (a)

     545           22,846   

Total System Services, Inc.

     610           18,886   

Visa, Inc.-Class A

     1,875           400,069   

Western Union Co. (The)-Class W

     1,930           30,957   

Xerox Corp.

     4,045           53,515   
       

 

 

 
          2,422,825   
       

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 0.4%

       

Altera Corp.

     1,110           39,716   

Analog Devices, Inc.

     1,180           58,398   

Applied Materials, Inc.

     4,535           98,001   

ARM Holdings PLC

     6,241           90,927   

ASM Pacific Technology Ltd.

     900           8,908   

ASML Holding NV

     1,801           178,387   

Avago Technologies Ltd.

     926           80,562   

Broadcom Corp.-Class A

     2,020           81,648   

Infineon Technologies AG

     4,860           50,024   

Intel Corp.

     18,540           645,563   

KLA-Tencor Corp.

     610           48,056   

Lam Research Corp.

     629           46,986   

Linear Technology Corp.

     890           39,507   

Microchip Technology, Inc.

     745           35,186   

Micron Technology, Inc. (a)

     3,970           136,012   

NVIDIA Corp.

     1,885           34,778   

Rohm Co., Ltd.

     400           25,186   

STMicroelectronics NV

     4,174           32,226   

Texas Instruments, Inc.

     3,975           189,568   

Tokyo Electron Ltd.

     800           52,140   

Xilinx, Inc.

     985           41,715   
       

 

 

 
          2,013,494   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Software - 0.7%

       

Adobe Systems, Inc. (a)

     1,760           121,774   

Autodesk, Inc. (a)

     825           45,458   

CA, Inc.

     1,185           33,109   

Citrix Systems, Inc. (a)

     630           44,944   

Dassault Systemes

     486           31,220   

Electronic Arts, Inc. (a)

     1,135           40,417   

Gemalto NV (d)

     323           29,658   

GungHo Online Entertainment, Inc.

     4,000           19,043   

Intuit, Inc.

     1,050           92,032   

Microsoft Corp.

     30,920           1,433,451   

Nexon Co., Ltd.

     2,595           21,401   

NICE-Systems Ltd.

     208           8,491   

Nintendo Co., Ltd.

     500           54,464   

Oracle Corp.

     12,200           467,016   

Oracle Corp. Japan

     500           19,516   

Red Hat, Inc. (a)

     690           38,744   

Sage Group PLC (The)

     4,400           25,990   

Salesforce.com, Inc. (a)

     2,134           122,769   

SAP SE

     4,114           296,906   

Symantec Corp.

     2,555           60,068   

Trend Micro, Inc./Japan

     500           16,942   

Xero Ltd. (a)

     231           3,882   
       

 

 

 
          3,027,295   
       

 

 

 

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 0.8%

       

Apple, Inc.

     22,466           2,263,450   

Brother Industries Ltd. (d)

     800           14,784   

Canon, Inc.

     5,100           165,933   

EMC Corp./MA

     7,555           221,059   

Hewlett-Packard Co.

     6,960           246,871   

Konica Minolta, Inc.

     2,000           21,621   

NEC Corp.

     9,000           31,107   

NetApp, Inc.

     1,190           51,122   

Nokia Oyj

     16,723           141,996   

Ricoh Co., Ltd.

     3,000           32,230   

SanDisk Corp.

     870           85,217   

Seagate Technology PLC

     1,200           68,724   

Seiko Epson Corp.

     600           28,910   

Western Digital Corp.

     830           80,776   
       

 

 

 
          3,453,800   
       

 

 

 
          15,616,924   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Discretionary - 3.2%

       

Auto Components - 0.2%

       

Aisin Seiki Co., Ltd.

     900           32,485   

BorgWarner, Inc.

     830           43,666   

Bridgestone Corp.

     2,900           95,917   

Cie Generale des Etablissements Michelin-Class B

     815           76,765   

Continental AG

     499           94,524   

Delphi Automotive PLC

     1,141           69,989   

Denso Corp.

     2,200           101,500   

GKN PLC

     7,308           37,633   

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (The)

     1,010           22,811   

Johnson Controls, Inc.

     2,480           109,120   

NGK Spark Plug Co., Ltd.

     1,000           29,425   


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

NOK Corp.

     700           16,070   

Nokian Renkaat Oyj (d)

     503           15,092   

Stanley Electric Co., Ltd.

     500           10,825   

Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd.

     3,400           50,333   

Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd.

     1,200           17,070   

Toyota Industries Corp.

     700           33,864   

Valeo SA

     339           37,668   

Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. (The)

     2,000           17,331   
       

 

 

 
          912,088   
       

 

 

 

Automobiles - 0.6%

       

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG

     1,478           157,960   

Daihatsu Motor Co., Ltd. (d)

     1,000           15,869   

Daimler AG

     4,296           328,072   

Fiat SpA (a)(d)

     5,440           52,429   

Ford Motor Co.

     14,470           214,011   

Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd.

     3,000           99,380   

General Motors Co.

     5,016           160,211   

Harley-Davidson, Inc.

     800           46,560   

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

     7,300           250,462   

Isuzu Motors Ltd.

     2,500           35,356   

Mazda Motor Corp.

     2,200           55,340   

Mitsubishi Motors Corp.

     2,400           29,112   

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.

     11,100           107,450   

Peugeot SA (a)

     2,295           29,366   

Porsche Automobil Holding SE (Preference Shares)

     684           54,565   

Renault SA

     857           61,995   

Suzuki Motor Corp.

     1,600           53,064   

Toyota Motor Corp.

     12,300           723,721   

Volkswagen AG

     140           28,927   

Volkswagen AG (Preference Shares)

     734           151,577   

Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd.

     1,200           23,514   
       

 

 

 
          2,678,941   
       

 

 

 

Distributors - 0.0%

       

Genuine Parts Co.

     560           49,117   

Jardine Cycle & Carriage Ltd.

     1,000           33,607   
       

 

 

 
          82,724   
       

 

 

 

Diversified Consumer Services - 0.0%

       

Benesse Holdings, Inc. (d)

     300           9,843   

Gree, Inc. (d)

     682           4,650   

H&R Block, Inc.

     1,020           31,630   
       

 

 

 
          46,123   
       

 

 

 

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 0.4%

       

Accor SA

     750           33,216   

Carnival Corp.

     1,685           67,686   

Carnival PLC

     818           32,573   

Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.-Class A (a)

     144           95,989   

Compass Group PLC

     7,648           123,356   

Crown Resorts Ltd.

     2,537           30,635   

Darden Restaurants, Inc. (d)

     470           24,186   

Flight Centre Travel Group Ltd. (d)

     471           17,617   

Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd.

     8,911           51,737   


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Genting Singapore PLC

     22,000           19,648   

InterContinental Hotels Group PLC

     1,133           43,690   

Marriott International, Inc./DE-Class A

     795           55,570   

McDonald’s Corp.

     3,680           348,901   

McDonald’s Holdings Co. Japan Ltd. (d)

     500           12,364   

Oriental Land Co., Ltd./Japan

     200           37,795   

Sands China Ltd.

     10,875           56,733   

SJM Holdings Ltd.

     13,014           24,777   

Sodexo

     292           28,564   

Starbucks Corp.

     2,810           212,043   

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.

     695           57,831   

Tatts Group Ltd.

     6,512           17,929   

TUI Travel PLC

     2,386           15,017   

Whitbread PLC

     801           53,824   

William Hill PLC

     3,391           20,265   

Wyndham Worldwide Corp.

     450           36,567   

Wynn Macau Ltd.

     10,107           32,211   

Wynn Resorts Ltd.

     310           57,995   

Yum! Brands, Inc.

     1,645           118,407   
       

 

 

 
          1,727,126   
       

 

 

 

Household Durables - 0.2%

       

Casio Computer Co., Ltd. (d)

     800           13,369   

DR Horton, Inc.

     1,205           24,727   

Electrolux AB-Class B

     2,430           64,007   

Garmin Ltd. (d)

     470           24,435   

Harman International Industries, Inc.

     240           23,530   

Iida Group Holdings Co., Ltd.

     867           10,605   

Leggett & Platt, Inc.

     475           16,587   

Lennar Corp.-Class A

     650           25,239   

Mohawk Industries, Inc. (a)

     250           33,705   

Newell Rubbermaid, Inc.

     1,025           35,270   

Nikon Corp. (d)

     1,500           21,695   

Panasonic Corp.

     9,900           117,992   

Persimmon PLC (a)

     1,354           29,135   

PulteGroup, Inc.

     1,235           21,810   

Rinnai Corp.

     200           16,593   

Sekisui Chemical Co., Ltd.

     2,000           22,986   

Sekisui House Ltd.

     2,000           23,571   

Sharp Corp./Japan (a)

     9,000           25,603   

Sony Corp.

     4,500           80,762   

Whirlpool Corp.

     300           43,695   
       

 

 

 
          675,316   
       

 

 

 

Internet & Catalog Retail - 0.2%

       

Amazon.com, Inc. (a)

     1,430           461,089   

ASOS PLC (a)

     244           8,900   

Expedia, Inc.

     382           33,471   

NetFlix, Inc. (a)

     226           101,967   

Priceline Group, Inc. (The) (a)

     197           228,240   

Rakuten, Inc.

     3,245           37,355   

TripAdvisor, Inc. (a)

     412           37,665   
       

 

 

 
          908,687   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Leisure Products - 0.0%

       

Bandai Namco Holdings, Inc.

     900           23,154   

Hasbro, Inc.

     400           21,998   

Mattel, Inc.

     1,235           37,853   

Sankyo Co., Ltd.

     300           10,751   

Sega Sammy Holdings, Inc. (d)

     700           11,271   

Shimano, Inc.

     400           48,657   
       

 

 

 
          153,684   
       

 

 

 

Media - 0.7%

       

Axel Springer SE

     401           22,015   

British Sky Broadcasting Group PLC

     4,358           62,159   

Cablevision Systems Corp.-Class A

     780           13,658   

CBS Corp.-Class B

     1,790           95,765   

Comcast Corp.-Class A

     9,720           522,742   

Dentsu, Inc.

     1,000           38,090   

DIRECTV (a)

     1,865           161,360   

Discovery Communications, Inc.-Class A (a)

     545           20,601   

Discovery Communications, Inc.-Class C (a)

     995           37,094   

Eutelsat Communications SA

     1,052           33,969   

Gannett Co., Inc.

     800           23,736   

Interpublic Group of Cos., Inc. (The)

     1,495           27,388   

ITV PLC

     16,647           55,895   

JCDecaux SA

     1,374           43,377   

Kabel Deutschland Holding AG

     201           27,266   

Lagardere SCA

     177           4,737   

News Corp.-Class A (a)

     1,808           29,561   

Omnicom Group, Inc.

     960           66,106   

Pearson PLC

     3,650           73,373   

ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG

     637           25,254   

Publicis Groupe SA

     807           55,302   

Reed Elsevier NV

     5,063           114,861   

Reed Elsevier PLC

     5,173           82,701   

RTL Group SA

     312           26,724   

Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.-Class A

     370           28,893   

SES SA

     971           33,573   

Singapore Press Holdings Ltd.(d)

     6,000           19,746   

Telenet Group Holding NV (a)

     194           11,149   

Time Warner Cable, Inc.-Class A

     1,065           152,817   

Time Warner, Inc.

     3,195           240,296   

Toho Co., Ltd./Tokyo

     1,000           22,593   

Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc.-Class A

     7,035           241,230   

Viacom, Inc.-Class B

     1,410           108,485   

Walt Disney Co. (The)

     5,914           526,524   

WPP PLC

     5,882           117,837   
       

 

 

 
          3,166,877   
       

 

 

 

Multiline Retail - 0.2%

       

Dollar General Corp. (a)

     1,120           68,443   

Dollar Tree, Inc. (a)

     750           42,053   

Don Quijote Holdings Co., Ltd.

     500           28,694   

Family Dollar Stores, Inc.

     355           27,420   

Isetan Mitsukoshi Holdings Ltd.

     1,300           16,919   

J Front Retailing Co., Ltd.

     1,500           19,624   

Kohl’s Corp.

     780           47,603   

Macy’s, Inc.

     1,305           75,925   

Marks & Spencer Group PLC

     7,213           47,162   

Next PLC

     713           76,316   

Nordstrom, Inc.

     520           35,552   

Target Corp.

     2,375           148,865   
       

 

 

 
          634,576   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Specialty Retail - 0.4%

       

AutoNation, Inc. (a)

     285           14,338   

AutoZone, Inc. (a)

     125           63,707   

Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc. (a)

     745           49,043   

Best Buy Co., Inc.

     1,050           35,270   

CarMax, Inc. (a)

     820           38,089   

Dixons Carphone PLC

     4,447           26,366   

Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.

     200           67,018   

GameStop Corp.-Class A

     415           17,098   

Gap, Inc. (The)

     1,005           41,898   

Hennes & Mauritz AB-Class B

     4,231           174,952   

Hikari Tsushin, Inc.

     200           14,218   

Home Depot, Inc. (The)

     5,080           466,039   

Inditex SA

     4,870           134,430   

Kingfisher PLC

     10,966           57,351   

L Brands, Inc.

     935           62,626   

Lowe’s Cos., Inc.

     3,690           195,275   

Nitori Holdings Co., Ltd.

     400           24,782   

O’Reilly Automotive, Inc. (a)

     390           58,640   

PetSmart, Inc.

     380           26,634   

Ross Stores, Inc.

     800           60,464   

Sanrio Co., Ltd. (d)

     500           14,494   

Shimamura Co., Ltd.

     200           18,387   

Sports Direct International PLC (a)

     1,618           16,167   

Staples, Inc.

     2,415           29,222   

Tiffany & Co.

     405           39,006   

TJX Cos., Inc. (The)

     2,570           152,067   

Tractor Supply Co.

     515           31,678   

Urban Outfitters, Inc. (a)

     335           12,295   

USS Co., Ltd.

     1,310           20,040   

Yamada Denki Co., Ltd.

     2,700           7,881   
       

 

 

 
          1,969,475   
       

 

 

 

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 0.3%

       

Adidas AG

     932           69,542   

Asics Corp.

     1,000           22,554   

Burberry Group PLC

     1,975           48,175   

Christian Dior SA

     166           27,809   

Cie Financiere Richemont SA

     2,331           190,539   

Coach, Inc.

     1,030           36,678   

Fossil Group, Inc. (a)

     169           15,869   

Hugo Boss AG

     198           24,683   

Kering

     338           68,147   

Li & Fung Ltd.

     48,000           54,523   

Luxottica Group SpA

     759           39,451   

LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton SA

     1,256           203,952   

Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. (a)

     759           54,185   

NIKE, Inc.-Class B

     2,660           237,272   

Pandora A/S

     468           36,540   

PVH Corp.

     295           35,739   

Ralph Lauren Corp.

     240           39,535   

Swatch Group AG (The)

     137           64,924   

Swatch Group AG (The) (REG)

     522           45,603   

Under Armour, Inc.-Class A (a)

     647           44,708   

VF Corp.

     1,310           86,499   
       

 

 

 
          1,446,927   
       

 

 

 
          14,402,544   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Industrials - 3.1%

       

Aerospace & Defense - 0.5%

       

Airbus Group NV

     2,598           163,311   

BAE Systems PLC

     14,460           110,065   

Boeing Co. (The)

     2,510           319,724   

Cobham PLC

     7,675           36,132   

General Dynamics Corp.

     1,210           153,779   

Honeywell International, Inc.

     2,955           275,170   

L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc.

     325           38,649   

Lockheed Martin Corp.

     1,050           191,919   

Meggitt PLC

     2,537           18,505   

Northrop Grumman Corp.

     790           104,090   

Precision Castparts Corp.

     540           127,915   

Raytheon Co.

     1,150           116,863   

Rockwell Collins, Inc.

     500           39,250   

Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC (a)

     8,396           130,672   

Safran SA

     1,117           72,419   

Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd.

     19,000           54,298   

Textron, Inc.

     1,005           36,170   

Thales SA

     694           36,936   

United Technologies Corp.

     3,225           340,560   

Zodiac Aerospace

     1,135           36,194   
       

 

 

 
          2,402,621   
       

 

 

 

Air Freight & Logistics - 0.2%

       

CH Robinson Worldwide, Inc.

     565           37,471   

Deutsche Post AG

     4,049           129,062   

Expeditors International of Washington, Inc.

     720           29,218   

FedEx Corp.

     1,015           163,872   

Kuehne & Nagel International AG

     432           54,433   

Royal Mail PLC

     2,926           18,537   

United Parcel Service, Inc.-Class B

     2,655           260,960   

Yamato Holdings Co., Ltd.

     1,600           29,794   
       

 

 

 
          723,347   
       

 

 

 

Airlines – 0.1%

       

ANA Holdings, Inc.

     8,000           18,596   

Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd.

     20,000           36,797   

Delta Air Lines, Inc.

     3,152           113,945   

Deutsche Lufthansa AG (REG)

     1,092           17,147   

International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (a)

     4,346           25,847   

Japan Airlines Co., Ltd.

     944           25,830   

Singapore Airlines Ltd.

     3,000           23,122   

Southwest Airlines Co.

     2,555           86,282   
       

 

 

 
          347,566   
       

 

 

 

Building Products - 0.1%

       

Allegion PLC

     335           15,959   

Asahi Glass Co., Ltd.

     4,000           21,699   

Assa Abloy AB-Class B

     1,164           59,815   

Cie de St-Gobain

     1,779           81,285   

Daikin Industries Ltd.

     1,000           62,033   

Geberit AG

     168           54,149   


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

LIXIL Group Corp. (d)

     1,200           25,601   

Masco Corp.

     1,305           31,216   

TOTO Ltd.

     2,000           22,003   
       

 

 

 
          373,760   
       

 

 

 

Commercial Services & Supplies - 0.1%

       

ADT Corp. (The)

     647           22,943   

Aggreko PLC

     1,141           28,558   

Babcock International Group PLC

     2,255           39,791   

Brambles Ltd.

     6,954           57,848   

Cintas Corp.

     335           23,648   

Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd.

     2,000           20,068   

Edenred

     818           20,156   

G4S PLC

     6,839           27,732   

Iron Mountain, Inc.

     614           20,047   

Pitney Bowes, Inc.

     705           17,618   

Republic Services, Inc.-Class A

     950           37,069   

Secom Co., Ltd.

     900           53,617   

Societe BIC SA

     221           28,488   

Stericycle, Inc. (a)

     310           36,134   

Toppan Printing Co., Ltd.

     2,000           14,373   

Tyco International Ltd.

     1,645           73,318   

Waste Management, Inc.

     1,595           75,810   
       

 

 

 
          597,218   
       

 

 

 

Construction & Engineering - 0.1%

       

ACS Actividades de Construccion y Servicios SA

     667           25,566   

Bouygues SA

     1,739           56,230   

Chiyoda Corp.

     1,000           11,059   

Ferrovial SA

     1,957           37,861   

Fluor Corp.

     565           37,736   

Jacobs Engineering Group, Inc. (a)

     465           22,701   

JGC Corp.

     1,000           27,322   

Kajima Corp.

     7,000           33,507   

Leighton Holdings Ltd.(d)

     1,344           22,733   

Obayashi Corp.

     3,000           20,531   

OCI (a)

     320           9,871   

Quanta Services, Inc. (a)

     765           27,762   

Shimizu Corp.

     4,000           31,564   

Skanska AB-Class B

     3,301           68,077   

Taisei Corp.

     5,000           28,208   

Vinci SA

     2,135           123,896   
       

 

 

 
          584,624   
       

 

 

 

Electrical Equipment - 0.3%

       

ABB Ltd. (REG) (a)

     9,800           219,222   

Alstom SA (a)

     1,012           34,702   

AMETEK, Inc.

     899           45,139   

Eaton Corp. PLC

     1,794           113,686   

Emerson Electric Co.

     2,600           162,708   

First Solar, Inc. (a)

     270           17,769   

Fuji Electric Co., Ltd.

     4,000           19,360   

Legrand SA

     1,194           62,044   

Mitsubishi Electric Corp.

     9,000           119,981   

Nidec Corp.

     1,000           67,577   

Osram Licht AG (a)

     292           10,834   

Prysmian SpA

     1,074           19,872   


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Rockwell Automation, Inc.

     530           58,236   

Schneider Electric SE (Paris)

     2,438           187,049   

Vestas Wind Systems A/S (a)

     1,008           39,299   
       

 

 

 
          1,177,478   
       

 

 

 

Industrial Conglomerates - 0.5%

       

3M Co.

     2,455           347,824   

Danaher Corp.

     2,290           173,994   

General Electric Co.

     37,620           963,824   

Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.

     10,000           120,886   

Keppel Corp., Ltd.

     4,000           32,902   

Koninklijke Philips NV

     3,341           106,243   

Roper Industries, Inc.

     375           54,859   

Siemens AG

     3,541           421,351   

Smiths Group PLC

     2,461           50,301   

Toshiba Corp.

     18,000           83,559   
       

 

 

 
          2,355,743   
       

 

 

 

Machinery - 0.5%

       

Alfa Laval AB

     3,611           76,935   

Amada Co., Ltd.

     3,000           28,602   

Andritz AG

     375           19,967   

Atlas Copco AB-Class A

     1,805           51,503   

Atlas Copco AB-Class B

     1,715           44,322   

Caterpillar, Inc.

     2,385           236,187   

CNH Industrial NV

     2,876           22,781   

Cummins, Inc.

     650           85,787   

Deere & Co. (d)

     1,335           109,457   

Dover Corp.

     635           51,010   

FANUC Corp.

     900           162,767   

Flowserve Corp.

     510           35,965   

GEA Group AG

     896           38,925   

Hino Motors Ltd.

     2,000           27,986   

Hitachi Construction Machinery Co., Ltd. (d)

     700           14,093   

IHI Corp.

     6,000           31,094   

Illinois Tool Works, Inc.

     1,375           116,077   

IMI PLC

     1,025           20,383   

Ingersoll-Rand PLC

     1,005           56,642   

Joy Global, Inc.

     385           20,998   

JTEKT Corp.

     1,400           23,466   

Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd.

     5,000           19,990   

Komatsu Ltd.

     4,200           97,067   

Kone Oyj-Class B

     1,392           55,729   

Kubota Corp. (d)

     5,000           79,167   

Makita Corp.

     400           22,597   

MAN SE

     407           45,801   

Melrose Industries PLC

     4,948           19,805   

Metso Oyj

     571           20,229   

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd.

     14,000           90,130   

NGK Insulators Ltd.

     1,000           23,837   

NSK Ltd.

     2,000           28,526   

PACCAR, Inc.

     1,310           74,506   

Pall Corp.

     395           33,061   

Parker-Hannifin Corp.

     545           62,212   

Pentair PLC

     710           46,498   

Sandvik AB

     2,698           30,302   

Schindler Holding AG

     137           18,557   

Schindler Holding AG (REG)

     271           36,164   


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

SembCorp Marine Ltd. (d)

     7,000           20,498   

SKF AB-Class B

     1,658           34,517   

SMC Corp./Japan

     200           55,148   

Snap-On, Inc.

     220           26,638   

Stanley Black & Decker, Inc.

     615           54,606   

Sumitomo Heavy Industries Ltd.

     6,000           33,794   

Vallourec SA

     641           29,499   

Volvo AB-Class B

     6,759           73,125   

Wartsila Oyj Abp

     793           35,335   

Weir Group PLC (The)

     950           38,366   

Xylem, Inc./NY

     685           24,311   

Zardoya Otis SA (d)

     1,239           15,356   
       

 

 

 
          2,520,318   
       

 

 

 

Marine - 0.0%

       

AP Moeller - Maersk A/S-Class A

     15           34,601   

AP Moeller - Maersk A/S-Class B

     30           71,065   

Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd.

     4,000           12,781   

Nippon Yusen KK

     5,000           13,183   
       

 

 

 
          131,630   
       

 

 

 

Professional Services - 0.1%

       

Adecco SA (a)

     590           39,884   

Bureau Veritas SA

     1,236           27,317   

Capita PLC

     2,937           55,290   

Dun & Bradstreet Corp. (The)

     165           19,383   

Equifax, Inc.

     455           34,007   

Experian PLC

     4,508           71,634   

Intertek Group PLC

     720           30,513   

Nielsen NV

     1,116           49,472   

Randstad Holding NV

     1,613           74,939   

Robert Half International, Inc.

     485           23,765   

SGS SA

     24           49,655   
       

 

 

 
          475,859   
       

 

 

 

Road & Rail - 0.3%

       

Asciano Ltd.

     8,374           44,266   

Aurizon Holdings Ltd.

     6,403           25,363   

Central Japan Railway Co.

     644           86,868   

CSX Corp.

     3,710           118,943   

DSV A/S

     511           14,369   

East Japan Railway Co.

     1,500           112,354   

Hankyu Hanshin Holdings, Inc.

     5,000           29,115   

Kansas City Southern

     420           50,904   

Keikyu Corp.

     2,000           16,695   

Keio Corp. (d)

     3,000           22,167   

Keisei Electric Railway Co., Ltd.

     2,000           20,081   

Kintetsu Corp. (d)

     8,000           26,913   

MTR Corp., Ltd.

     7,000           27,494   

Nippon Express Co., Ltd.

     3,000           12,565   

Norfolk Southern Corp.

     1,190           132,804   

Odakyu Electric Railway Co., Ltd.

     2,000           18,290   

Ryder System, Inc.

     215           19,344   

Tobu Railway Co., Ltd.

     3,000           15,085   

Tokyu Corp.

     5,000           32,769   

Union Pacific Corp.

     3,400           368,628   

West Japan Railway Co.

     751           33,609   
       

 

 

 
          1,228,626   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Trading Companies & Distributors - 0.2%

       

Brenntag AG

     567           27,751   

Bunzl PLC

     1,482           38,561   

Fastenal Co.

     1,030           46,247   

ITOCHU Corp.

     7,000           85,491   

Marubeni Corp.

     7,000           47,900   

Mitsubishi Corp.

     6,300           129,026   

Mitsui & Co., Ltd. (d)

     7,800           123,038   

Sumitomo Corp. (d)

     5,000           55,186   

Toyota Tsusho Corp.

     700           17,051   

Travis Perkins PLC

     1,092           29,339   

United Rentals, Inc. (a)

     350           38,885   

Wolseley PLC

     1,423           74,535   

WW Grainger, Inc.

     230           57,880   
       

 

 

 
          770,890   
       

 

 

 

Transportation Infrastructure - 0.1%

       

Abertis Infraestructuras SA

     1,637           32,281   

Aeroports de Paris

     305           36,521   

Atlantia SpA

     2,911           71,511   

Auckland International Airport Ltd.

     3,663           11,004   

Hutchison Port Holdings Trust-Class U

     43,553           30,464   

Mitsubishi Logistics Corp.

     1,000           14,368   

Sydney Airport

     15,829           59,098   

Transurban Group

     7,856           53,040   
       

 

 

 
          308,287   
       

 

 

 
          13,997,967   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Staples - 2.8%

       

Beverages - 0.6%

       

Anheuser-Busch InBev NV

     3,588           397,902   

Asahi Group Holdings Ltd.

     1,700           49,175   

Brown-Forman Corp.-Class B

     602           54,312   

Carlsberg A/S-Class B

     478           42,452   

Coca-Cola Amatil Ltd.

     3,316           25,456   

Coca-Cola Co. (The)

     14,780           630,515   

Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc.

     850           37,706   

Coca-Cola HBC AG (a)

     892           19,250   

Constellation Brands, Inc.-Class A (a)

     620           54,039   

Diageo PLC

     11,209           323,291   

Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.

     720           46,303   

Heineken NV

     1,245           92,982   

Kirin Holdings Co., Ltd.

     4,000           53,067   

Molson Coors Brewing Co.-Class B

     600           44,664   

Monster Beverage Corp. (a)

     560           51,335   

PepsiCo, Inc.

     5,675           528,286   

Pernod Ricard SA

     946           107,069   

Remy Cointreau SA

     195           14,039   

SABMiller PLC (London)

     4,293           237,909   

Suntory Beverage & Food Ltd.

     848           30,029   

Treasury Wine Estates Ltd.

     5,315           19,648   
       

 

 

 
          2,859,429   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Food & Staples Retailing - 0.6%

       

Aeon Co., Ltd.

     2,700           26,901   

Carrefour SA

     2,692           83,141   

Casino Guichard Perrachon SA

     482           51,856   

Colruyt SA (d)

     393           17,316   

Costco Wholesale Corp.

     1,665           208,658   

CVS Health Corp.

     4,330           344,625   

Delhaize Group SA

     404           28,077   

Distribuidora Internacional de Alimentacion SA

     2,417           17,321   

FamilyMart Co., Ltd.

     400           15,266   

J Sainsbury PLC

     5,506           22,390   

Jeronimo Martins SGPS SA

     1,190           13,095   

Koninklijke Ahold NV

     5,462           88,351   

Kroger Co. (The)

     1,815           94,380   

Lawson, Inc.

     200           13,993   

Metro AG (a)

     1,551           50,865   

Safeway, Inc.

     845           28,983   

Seven & I Holdings Co., Ltd.

     3,400           131,874   

Sysco Corp.

     2,155           81,782   

Tesco PLC

     36,078           107,774   

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.

     5,913           452,167   

Walgreen Co.

     3,295           195,295   

Wesfarmers Ltd.

     5,147           189,676   

Whole Foods Market, Inc.

     1,320           50,305   

WM Morrison Supermarkets PLC

     9,857           26,821   

Woolworths Ltd.

     5,562           166,549   
       

 

 

 
          2,507,461   
       

 

 

 

Food Products – 0.7%

       

Ajinomoto Co., Inc.

     3,000           49,890   

Archer-Daniels-Midland Co.

     2,415           123,406   

Aryzta AG (a)

     470           40,499   

Associated British Foods PLC

     1,705           73,910   

Campbell Soup Co.

     675           28,843   

Chocoladefabriken Lindt & Spruengli AG (REG)

     1           59,269   

ConAgra Foods, Inc.

     1,585           52,368   

Danone SA

     2,621           175,518   

General Mills, Inc.

     2,285           115,278   

Golden Agri-Resources Ltd.

     48,000           19,393   

Hershey Co. (The)

     550           52,487   

Hormel Foods Corp.

     475           24,410   

JM Smucker Co. (The)

     395           39,101   

Kellogg Co.

     965           59,444   

Kerry Group PLC-Class A

     781           55,063   

Keurig Green Mountain, Inc.

     478           62,202   

Kraft Foods Group, Inc.

     2,228           125,659   

McCormick & Co., Inc./MD

     475           31,778   

Mead Johnson Nutrition Co.-Class A

     760           73,127   

MEIJI Holdings Co., Ltd. (d)

     300           23,724   

Mondelez International, Inc.-Class A

     6,285           215,356   

Nestle SA

     14,400           1,058,270   

NH Foods Ltd

     1,000           21,233   

Nissin Foods Holdings Co., Ltd. (d)

     400           20,769   

Orkla ASA

     2,074           18,747   

Tate & Lyle PLC

     2,078           19,807   

Toyo Suisan Kaisha Ltd.

     1,000           33,205   

Tyson Foods, Inc.-Class A

     1,075           42,323   

Unilever NV

     7,274           288,670   

Unilever PLC

     5,731           239,888   

Wilmar International Ltd.

     9,000           21,769   

Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd. (d)

     400           21,009   
       

 

 

 
          3,286,415   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Household Products - 0.4%

       

Clorox Co. (The)

     470           45,139   

Colgate-Palmolive Co.

     3,200           208,704   

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA

     579           53,994   

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Preference Shares)

     796           79,243   

Kimberly-Clark Corp.

     1,415           152,211   

Procter & Gamble Co. (The)

     10,165           851,217   

Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC

     2,888           249,690   

Svenska Cellulosa AB SCA-Class B

     2,115           50,255   

Unicharm Corp.

     1,500           34,187   
       

 

 

 
          1,724,640   
       

 

 

 

Personal Products - 0.1%

       

Avon Products, Inc.

     1,555           19,593   

Beiersdorf AG

     310           25,793   

Estee Lauder Cos., Inc. (The)-Class A

     840           62,765   

Kao Corp.

     2,300           89,752   

L’Oreal SA

     1,080           171,282   

Shiseido Co., Ltd.

     1,600           26,393   
       

 

 

 
          395,578   
       

 

 

 

Tobacco - 0.4%

       

Altria Group, Inc.

     7,410           340,416   

British American Tobacco PLC

     8,566           482,699   

Imperial Tobacco Group PLC

     4,350           187,293   

Japan Tobacco, Inc.

     4,912           159,618   

Lorillard, Inc.

     1,340           80,279   

Philip Morris International, Inc.

     5,850           487,890   

Reynolds American, Inc.

     1,135           66,965   

Swedish Match AB

     831           26,884   
       

 

 

 
          1,832,044   
       

 

 

 
          12,605,567   
       

 

 

 

Energy - 2.3%

       

Energy Equipment & Services - 0.3%

       

Akastor ASA

     1,244           5,009   

Aker Solutions ASA (a)(e)

     1,244           12,392   

AMEC PLC

     1,606           28,658   

Baker Hughes, Inc.

     1,610           104,747   

Cameron International Corp. (a)

     770           51,113   

Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. (d)

     240           8,225   

Ensco PLC-Class A

     850           35,113   

FMC Technologies, Inc. (a)

     860           46,707   

Fugro NV (d)

     538           16,244   

Halliburton Co.

     3,190           205,787   

Helmerich & Payne, Inc.

     435           42,573   

Nabors Industries Ltd.

     1,065           24,239   

National Oilwell Varco, Inc.

     1,605           122,140   

Noble Corp. PLC

     925           20,553   

Petrofac Ltd.

     1,166           19,538   

Saipem SpA (a)

     1,479           31,364   

Schlumberger Ltd.

     4,885           496,756   


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Seadrill Ltd. (d)

     1,676           44,780   

Subsea 7 SA

     1,066           15,223   

Technip SA

     267           22,398   

Tenaris SA

     1,269           28,958   

Transocean Ltd. (d)

     1,250           39,962   

Transocean Ltd. (Zurich) (d)

     1,255           40,366   
       

 

 

 
          1,462,845   
       

 

 

 

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 2.0%

       

Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

     1,895           192,229   

Apache Corp.

     1,445           135,642   

BG Group PLC

     15,199           280,586   

BP PLC

     84,788           620,253   

Cabot Oil & Gas Corp.

     1,540           50,343   

Caltex Australia Ltd.

     1,410           34,514   

Chesapeake Energy Corp.

     1,945           44,716   

Chevron Corp.

     7,130           850,752   

Cimarex Energy Co.

     327           41,375   

ConocoPhillips

     4,620           353,522   

CONSOL Energy, Inc.

     840           31,802   

Delek Group Ltd.

     11           4,163   

Denbury Resources, Inc.

     1,310           19,689   

Devon Energy Corp.

     1,420           96,816   

ENI SpA

     11,360           269,530   

EOG Resources, Inc.

     2,060           203,981   

EQT Corp.

     590           54,009   

Exxon Mobil Corp.

     16,037           1,508,280   

Galp Energia SGPS SA

     1,550           25,191   

Hess Corp.

     990           93,377   

Idemitsu Kosan Co., Ltd.

     1,200           25,488   

Inpex Corp.

     4,000           56,552   

JX Holdings, Inc.

     10,000           46,108   

Kinder Morgan, Inc./DE

     2,425           92,974   

Koninklijke Vopak NV

     502           27,050   

Lundin Petroleum AB (a)

     856           14,470   

Marathon Oil Corp.

     2,505           94,163   

Marathon Petroleum Corp.

     1,062           89,920   

Murphy Oil Corp.

     605           34,431   

Neste Oil Oyj

     572           11,776   

Newfield Exploration Co. (a)

     470           17,423   

Noble Energy, Inc.

     1,350           92,286   

Occidental Petroleum Corp.

     2,950           283,642   

OMV AG

     658           22,126   

ONEOK, Inc.

     770           50,473   

Origin Energy Ltd.

     4,903           64,122   

Phillips 66

     2,110           171,564   

Pioneer Natural Resources Co.

     565           111,288   

QEP Resources, Inc.

     575           17,699   

Range Resources Corp.

     650           44,077   

Repsol SA

     3,820           90,626   

Royal Dutch Shell PLC-Class A

     17,357           663,392   

Royal Dutch Shell PLC-Class B

     11,041           436,495   

Santos Ltd.

     4,317           51,634   

Southwestern Energy Co. (a)

     1,295           45,260   

Spectra Energy Corp.

     2,485           97,561   

Statoil ASA

     4,983           135,666   

Tesoro Corp.

     475           28,966   

TonenGeneral Sekiyu KK

     2,000           17,494   


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Total SA (d)

     9,552           618,531   

Tullow Oil PLC

     4,387           45,739   

Valero Energy Corp.

     1,975           91,383   

Williams Cos., Inc. (The)

     2,505           138,652   

Woodside Petroleum Ltd.

     2,943           104,499   
       

 

 

 
          8,844,300   
       

 

 

 
          10,307,145   
       

 

 

 

Materials - 1.4%

       

Chemicals - 0.7%

       

Air Liquide SA

     1,531           186,661   

Air Products & Chemicals, Inc.

     720           93,730   

Air Water, Inc.

     1,000           14,896   

Airgas, Inc.

     240           26,556   

Akzo Nobel NV

     704           48,168   

Arkema SA

     450           30,154   

Asahi Kasei Corp.

     6,000           48,794   

BASF SE

     4,101           374,082   

CF Industries Holdings, Inc.

     190           53,052   

Croda International PLC

     549           18,206   

Dow Chemical Co. (The)

     4,225           221,559   

Eastman Chemical Co.

     580           46,916   

Ecolab, Inc.

     1,040           119,423   

EI du Pont de Nemours & Co.

     3,445           247,213   

EMS-Chemie Holding AG (REG)

     109           45,104   

FMC Corp.

     480           27,451   

Givaudan SA (a)

     37           58,978   

Hitachi Chemical Co., Ltd.

     900           15,986   

Incitec Pivot Ltd.

     7,611           18,029   

International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc.

     300           28,764   

Israel Chemicals Ltd.

     1,432           10,287   

Israel Corp., Ltd. (The) (a)

     16           8,993   

Johnson Matthey PLC

     915           43,148   

JSR Corp.

     800           13,961   

K&S AG

     1,472           41,524   

Kansai Paint Co., Ltd.

     1,000           14,951   

Kuraray Co., Ltd.(d)

     1,000           11,747   

Lanxess AG

     509           28,098   

Linde AG

     827           158,296   

LyondellBasell Industries NV-Class A

     1,599           173,747   

Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings Corp.

     6,000           29,536   

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Co., Inc.

     2,000           12,751   

Monsanto Co.

     1,990           223,895   

Mosaic Co. (The)

     1,180           52,404   

Nippon Paint Co., Ltd.

     1,000           22,558   

Nitto Denko Corp.

     600           32,854   

Novozymes A/S-Class B

     1,129           48,858   

Orica Ltd.

     2,259           37,282   

PPG Industries, Inc.

     550           108,207   

Praxair, Inc.

     1,090           140,610   

Sherwin-Williams Co. (The)

     315           68,982   

Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.

     1,800           117,934   

Sigma-Aldrich Corp.

     455           61,885   

Sika AG

     6           20,746   

Solvay SA

     236           36,246   

Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd.

     7,000           25,002   

Syngenta AG

     416           131,725   

Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp. (d)

     2,000           17,656   


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Teijin Ltd.

     5,000           12,081   

Toray Industries, Inc.

     7,000           46,277   

Umicore SA

     509           22,191   

Yara International ASA

     541           27,165   
       

 

 

 
          3,525,319   
       

 

 

 

Construction Materials - 0.1%

       

CRH PLC

     3,257           73,968   

Fletcher Building Ltd.

     3,064           21,002   

HeidelbergCement AG

     440           28,961   

Holcim Ltd. (a)

     816           59,365   

James Hardie Industries PLC

     3,449           36,084   

Lafarge SA

     832           59,876   

Martin Marietta Materials, Inc.

     227           29,269   

Taiheiyo Cement Corp. (d)

     5,000           18,858   

Vulcan Materials Co.

     465           28,007   
       

 

 

 
          355,390   
       

 

 

 

Containers & Packaging - 0.1%

       

Amcor Ltd./Australia

     5,378           53,270   

Avery Dennison Corp.

     335           14,958   

Ball Corp.

     510           32,268   

Bemis Co., Inc.

     330           12,546   

MeadWestvaco Corp.

     620           25,383   

Owens-Illinois, Inc. (a)

     560           14,588   

Rexam PLC

     3,136           24,929   

Sealed Air Corp.

     790           27,555   

Toyo Seikan Group Holdings Ltd.

     1,700           21,075   
       

 

 

 
          226,572   
       

 

 

 

Metals & Mining - 0.5%

       

Alcoa, Inc.

     4,370           70,313   

Allegheny Technologies, Inc.

     385           14,284   

Anglo American PLC

     6,223           138,784   

Antofagasta PLC

     1,773           20,631   

ArcelorMittal (Euronext Amsterdam)

     8,908           121,881   

BHP Billiton Ltd.

     14,341           422,679   

BHP Billiton PLC

     9,431           260,867   

Boliden AB

     1,652           26,674   

Fortescue Metals Group Ltd.

     6,938           21,078   

Freeport-McMoRan, Inc.

     3,875           126,519   

Fresnillo PLC

     1,459           17,894   

Glencore PLC (a)

     47,381           262,412   

Hitachi Metals Ltd.

     1,000           18,025   

Iluka Resources Ltd.

     2,008           13,811   

JFE Holdings, Inc.

     2,200           43,948   

Kobe Steel Ltd. (d)

     12,000           19,488   

Mitsubishi Materials Corp.

     7,000           22,649   

Newcrest Mining Ltd. (a)

     2,055           18,885   

Newmont Mining Corp.

     1,795           41,375   

Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp.

     34,000           88,269   

Norsk Hydro ASA

     6,514           36,418   

Nucor Corp.

     1,210           65,679   

Randgold Resources Ltd.

     390           26,439   

Rio Tinto Ltd.

     1,946           101,340   

Rio Tinto PLC

     5,676           278,123   

Sumitomo Metal Mining Co., Ltd.

     2,000           28,147   

ThyssenKrupp AG (a)

     2,036           53,155   

Voestalpine AG

     442           17,454   
       

 

 

 
          2,377,221   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Paper & Forest Products - 0.0%

       

International Paper Co.

     1,565           74,713   

OJI Holdings Corp. (d)

     4,000           15,143   

Stora Enso Oyj-Class R

     2,457           20,385   

UPM-Kymmene Oyj

     2,358           33,520   
       

 

 

 
          143,761   
       

 

 

 
          6,628,263   
       

 

 

 

Telecommunication Services - 1.0%

       

Diversified Telecommunication Services - 0.8%

       

AT&T, Inc.

     19,448           685,347   

Belgacom SA

     795           27,679   

Bezeq The Israeli Telecommunication Corp., Ltd.

     7,158           12,356   

BT Group PLC

     35,190           215,856   

CenturyLink, Inc.

     2,110           86,278   

Deutsche Telekom AG

     14,013           212,108   

Elisa Oyj

     635           16,822   

Frontier Communications Corp.

     3,660           23,827   

HKT Trust and HKT Ltd.

     18,882           22,810   

Iliad SA

     163           34,385   

Inmarsat PLC

     1,541           17,479   

Koninklijke KPN NV (a)

     2,757           8,827   

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp.

     1,900           117,827   

Orange SA

     8,280           123,559   

Singapore Telecommunications Ltd.

     36,000           108,038   

Spark New Zealand Ltd

     9,734           22,559   

Swisscom AG

     104           58,951   

TDC A/S

     3,390           25,682   

Telecom Italia SpA (ordinary shares) (a)

     64,157           73,381   

Telecom Italia SpA (savings shares)

     16,898           14,936   

Telefonica SA

     18,290           282,474   

Telekom Austria AG

     1,044           9,408   

Telenor ASA

     3,853           84,564   

TeliaSonera AB

     10,613           73,189   

Telstra Corp., Ltd.

     20,376           94,540   

Verizon Communications, Inc.

     15,545           777,095   

Vivendi SA (a)

     5,418           130,833   

Windstream Holdings, Inc.

     2,175           23,446   

Ziggo NV (a)

     1,595           74,696   
       

 

 

 
          3,458,952   
       

 

 

 

Wireless Telecommunication Services - 0.2%

       

KDDI Corp.

     2,622           157,730   

Millicom International Cellular SA

     641           51,340   

NTT DoCoMo, Inc. (d)

     6,800           113,888   

SoftBank Corp.

     4,300           300,350   

StarHub Ltd.

     4,000           12,910   

Vodafone Group PLC

     118,560           390,682   
       

 

 

 
          1,026,900   
       

 

 

 
          4,485,852   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Utilities - 0.9%

       

Electric Utilities - 0.4%

       

American Electric Power Co., Inc.

     1,825           95,283   

AusNet Services

     12,753           15,212   

Cheung Kong Infrastructure Holdings Ltd.

     7,000           49,102   

Chubu Electric Power Co., Inc. (a)

     2,900           33,293   

Chugoku Electric Power Co., Inc. (The)

     1,300           16,671   

CLP Holdings Ltd.

     8,500           68,223   

Contact Energy Ltd.

     2,149           10,033   

Duke Energy Corp.

     2,632           196,795   

Edison International

     1,215           67,943   

EDP - Energias de Portugal SA

     10,415           45,416   

Electricite de France SA

     1,042           34,185   

Enel SpA

     29,393           155,492   

Entergy Corp.

     675           52,198   

Exelon Corp.

     3,197           108,986   

FirstEnergy Corp.

     1,535           51,530   

Fortum Oyj

     1,983           48,349   

Hokuriku Electric Power Co. (d)

     1,600           21,019   

Iberdrola SA

     22,931           163,908   

Kansai Electric Power Co., Inc. (The) (a)

     3,100           29,292   

Kyushu Electric Power Co., Inc. (a)

     1,900           20,480   

NextEra Energy, Inc.

     1,645           154,433   

Northeast Utilities

     1,160           51,388   

Pepco Holdings, Inc.

     890           23,816   

Pinnacle West Capital Corp.

     385           21,036   

Power Assets Holdings Ltd.

     3,500           30,981   

PPL Corp.

     2,445           80,294   

Red Electrica Corp. SA

     483           41,807   

Shikoku Electric Power Co., Inc. (a) (d)

     700           8,981   

Southern Co. (The)

     3,360           146,664   

SSE PLC

     4,306           107,824   

Tohoku Electric Power Co., Inc.

     1,400           15,911   

Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. (a)

     5,500           19,257   

Xcel Energy, Inc.

     1,870           56,848   
       

 

 

 
          2,042,650   
       

 

 

 

Gas Utilities - 0.1%

       

AGL Resources, Inc.

     448           23,000   

APA Group

     2,828           18,398   

Enagas SA

     853           27,432   

Gas Natural SDG SA

     1,571           46,214   

Hong Kong & China Gas Co., Ltd.

     32,340           70,137   

Osaka Gas Co., Ltd.

     8,000           32,124   

Snam SpA

     6,059           33,457   

Toho Gas Co., Ltd. (d)

     2,000           11,261   

Tokyo Gas Co., Ltd.

     11,000           61,810   
       

 

 

 
          323,833   
       

 

 

 

Independent Power Producers & Energy Traders - 0.0%

       

AES Corp./VA

     2,385           33,819   

Electric Power Development Co., Ltd.

     500           16,338   

Enel Green Power SpA

     25,579           65,289   

NRG Energy, Inc.

     1,240           37,795   
       

 

 

 
          153,241   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Multi-Utilities - 0.4%

       

AGL Energy Ltd.

     3,037           35,976   

Ameren Corp.

     910           34,880   

CenterPoint Energy, Inc.

     1,545           37,806   

Centrica PLC

     23,112           115,189   

CMS Energy Corp.

     970           28,770   

Consolidated Edison, Inc.

     1,080           61,193   

Dominion Resources, Inc./VA

     2,185           150,962   

DTE Energy Co.

     670           50,974   

E.ON SE

     8,042           146,860   

GDF Suez

     5,926           148,627   

Integrys Energy Group, Inc.

     300           19,446   

National Grid PLC

     16,377           235,418   

NiSource, Inc.

     1,155           47,332   

PG&E Corp.

     1,775           79,946   

Public Service Enterprise Group, Inc.

     1,855           69,080   

RWE AG

     2,185           85,041   

SCANA Corp.

     545           27,037   

Sempra Energy

     860           90,627   

Suez Environnement Co.

     1,324           22,395   

TECO Energy, Inc.

     875           15,207   

United Utilities Group PLC

     2,853           37,268   

Veolia Environnement SA

     1,552           27,367   

Wisconsin Energy Corp.

     850           36,550   
       

 

 

 
          1,603,951   
       

 

 

 

Water Utilities - 0.0%

       

Severn Trent PLC

     1,196           36,337   
       

 

 

 
          4,160,012   
       

 

 

 

Total Common Stocks
(cost $97,505,283)

          123,246,069   
       

 

 

 
     Principal
Amount
(000)
          

GOVERNMENTS - TREASURIES - 20.6%

       

United States - 20.6%

       

U.S. Treasury Bonds

       

2.75%, 8/15/42

   $ 775           710,094   

2.875%, 5/15/43

     350           327,852   

3.125%, 11/15/41-2/15/42

     1,360           1,347,789   

3.125%, 2/15/43 (f)

     1,465           1,443,482   

3.50%, 2/15/39

     358           380,878   

3.625%, 8/15/43

     1,735           1,875,427   

3.75%, 8/15/41

     220           244,234   

3.875%, 8/15/40

     280           316,969   

4.25%, 5/15/39

     240           287,100   

4.375%, 11/15/39-5/15/41

     1,258           1,536,767   

4.50%, 8/15/39

     220           273,041   

4.75%, 2/15/37-2/15/41

     401           517,443   

5.375%, 2/15/31

     650           860,336   

6.00%, 2/15/26

     762           1,017,032   

6.25%, 8/15/23-5/15/30

     724           1,019,348   

6.875%, 8/15/25

     325           458,859   

7.25%, 5/15/16-8/15/22

     4,093           4,734,828   

7.50%, 11/15/16

     92           105,168   

7.625%, 2/15/25

     55           80,798   

8.00%, 11/15/21

     123           170,201   


Company

   Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

U.S. Treasury Notes

  

0.375%, 1/31/16

     2,397           2,400,464   

0.50%, 7/31/17

     3,520           3,466,651   

0.75%, 2/28/18-3/31/18

     5,625           5,513,205   

0.875%, 11/30/16-4/30/17

     2,315           2,318,571   

1.00%, 9/30/16-5/31/18

     5,855           5,832,691   

1.25%, 11/30/18-4/30/19

     5,994           5,882,532   

1.375%, 11/30/15-2/28/19

     15,232           15,313,009   

1.50%, 5/31/19

     1,205           1,192,281   

1.625%, 8/15/22-11/15/22

     2,090           1,979,332   

1.75%, 7/31/15-5/15/23

     3,600           3,534,623   

1.875%, 10/31/17

     1,100           1,124,063   

2.00%, 4/30/16-2/15/23

     3,760           3,703,117   

2.125%, 12/31/15-8/15/21

     825           832,660   

2.25%, 11/30/17

     584           602,934   

2.375%, 7/31/17

     416           431,159   

2.50%, 8/15/23-5/15/24

     2,242           2,251,198   

2.625%, 1/31/18-11/15/20

     3,140           3,252,812   

2.75%, 5/31/17-11/15/23

     2,875           3,006,575   

3.00%, 2/28/17

     889           935,186   

3.125%, 10/31/16-5/15/21

     1,111           1,171,706   

3.25%, 7/31/16

     1,147           1,203,902   

3.375%, 11/15/19

     1,055           1,135,856   

3.625%, 2/15/20-2/15/21

     1,425           1,553,615   

3.75%, 11/15/18

     6,205           6,747,454   
       

 

 

 

Total Governments - Treasuries
(cost $93,617,920)

          93,093,242   
       

 

 

 
     Shares           

INVESTMENT COMPANIES - 17.5%

       

Funds and Investment Trusts - 17.5%

       

iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF

     151,991           7,605,630   

iShares MSCI EAFE ETF

     43,003           2,757,352   

SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust

     319,592           62,966,016   

Vanguard REIT ETF (d)

     46,471           3,338,941   

Vanguard Small-Cap ETF (d)

     21,580           2,387,396   
       

 

 

 

Total Investment Companies
(cost $76,352,285)

          79,055,335   
       

 

 

 
     Contracts           

OPTIONS PURCHASED - PUTS - 0.1%

       

Options on Indices - 0.1%

       

S&P 500 Index

       

Expiration: Oct 2014, Exercise Price: $ 1,880.00 (a)(g)

     81           43,740   

S&P 500 Index

       

Expiration: Nov 2014, Exercise Price: $ 1,860.00 (a)(g)

     136           212,160   
       

 

 

 

Total Options Purchased - Puts
(cost $515,847)

          255,900   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

RIGHTS - 0.0%

       

Information Technology - 0.0%

       

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components - 0.0%

       

Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria SA, expiring 9/29/14 (a)

     25,822           2,577   
       

 

 

 

Financials - 0.0%

       

Banks - 0.0%

       

Banco Popular Espanol SA, expiring 9/29/14 (a)

     7,493           104   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Discretionary - 0.0%

       

Automobiles - 0.0%

       

Fiat SpA, expiring 6/10/14 (a)(d)

     5,440           0   
       

 

 

 

Total Rights
(cost $2,735)

          2,681   
       

 

 

 

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 30.0%

       

Investment Companies - 30.0%

       

AllianceBernstein Fixed-Income Shares, Inc.-Government STIF Portfolio, 0.07% (h)(i)
(Cost $135,843,301)

     135,843,301           135,843,301   
       

 

 

 

Total Investments Before Security Lending Collateral for Securities Loaned - 95.4%
(cost $403,837,371)

          431,496,528   
       

 

 

 

INVESTMENTS OF CASH COLLATERAL FOR SECURITIES LOANED - 1.8%

       

Investment Companies - 1.8%

       

AllianceBernstein Exchange Reserves-Class I, 0.04% (h)(i)
(Cost $8,035,150)

     8,035,150           8,035,150   
       

 

 

 

Total Investments - 97.2%
(cost $411,872,521) (j)

          439,531,678   

Other assets less liabilities - 2.8% (k)

          12,433,137   
       

 

 

 

Net Assets - 100.0%

        $ 451,964,815   
       

 

 

 

FUTURES

 

Type

   Number
of
Contracts
     Expiration
Month
     Original
Value
     Value at
September 30,
2014
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Purchased Contracts

              

Euro STOXX 50 Futures

     836         December 2014       $ 33,941,369       $ 34,031,985       $ 90,616   

FTSE 100 Index Futures

     45         December 2014         4,920,303         4,818,828         (101,475

MSCI EAFE Mini Futures

     8         December 2014         762,058         735,880         (26,178

Russell 2000 Mini Futures

     20         December 2014         2,318,337         2,193,200         (125,137

TOPIX Index Futures

     113         December 2014         13,382,214         13,667,153         284,939   

U.S. T-Note 5 Yr (CBT) Futures

     136         December 2014         16,076,123         16,083,063         6,940   


Type

   Number
of
Contracts
     Expiration
Month
     Original
Value
     Value at
September 30,
2014
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

U.S. T-Note 10 Yr (CBT) Futures

     138         December 2014       $ 17,294,345       $ 17,200,406       $ (93,939

U.S Ultra Bond (CBT) Futures

     41         December 2014         6,254,381         6,252,500         (1,881

Sold Contracts

              

Hang Seng Index Futures

     18         October 2014         2,734,488         2,644,996         89,492   

SPI 200 Futures

     15         December 2014         1,785,714         1,734,574         51,140   
              

 

 

 
               $ 174,517   
              

 

 

 

FORWARD CURRENCY EXCHANGE CONTRACTS

 

Counterparty

          Contract
Amount
(000)
            U.S. $
Value on
Origination
Date
     U.S. $
Value at
September 30,
2014
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Barclays Bank PLC

     USD         571         EUR         450         12/15/14       $ (2,355

Barclays Bank PLC

     USD         3,322         GBP         2,059         12/15/14         13,748   

BNP Paribas SA

     AUD         1,230         USD         1,138         12/15/14         67,221   

BNP Paribas SA

     GBP         349         USD         568         12/15/14         3,083   

BNP Paribas SA

     JPY         389,637         USD         3,760         12/15/14         205,335   

BNP Paribas SA

     USD         4,646         JPY         493,103         12/15/14         (147,088

BNP Paribas SA

     CHF         1,030         USD         1,106         12/15/14         26,032   

Citibank, NA

     JPY         234,108         USD         2,187         12/15/14         51,252   

Credit Suisse International

     EUR         7,099         USD         9,364         12/15/14         392,756   

HSBC Bank USA

     USD         2,325         EUR         1,799         12/15/14         (51,980

JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA

     USD         529         GBP         326         12/15/14         (1,154

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

     USD         1,570         EUR         1,215         12/15/14         (34,340

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

     CHF         2,262         USD         2,474         12/15/14         103,399   

Standard Chartered Bank

     USD         545         GBP         339         12/15/14         4,167   

Standard Chartered Bank

     USD         2,331         JPY         253,232         12/15/14         (20,601

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD         256         SEK         1,819         12/15/14         (4,202

UBS AG

     USD         9,691         EUR         7,452         12/15/14         (273,956

UBS AG

     USD         5,423         CHF         5,061         12/15/14         (118,332
                 

 

 

 
                  $ 212,985   
                 

 

 

 

CENTRALLY CLEARED CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS

 

Clearing Broker/(Exchange) & Referenced Obligation

   Fixed Rate
(Pay)
Receive
    Implied Credit
Spread at
September 30, 2014
    Notional
Amount
(000)
     Market
Value
    Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Buy Contracts

           

Morgan Stanely & Co., LLC/(INTRCONX):

           

CDX-NAHY Series 22, 5 Year Index, 06/20/19*

     (5.00 )%      3.51   $ 12,474       $ (770,624   $ 208,776   

iTraxx-XOVER Series 21, 5 Year Index, 06/20/2019*

     (5.00     2.57        EUR 6,060         (809,358     116,999   

Sale Contracts

           

Citigroup Global Markets, Inc./(INTRCONX):

           

CDX-NAHY Series 22, 5 Year
Index, 06/20/19*

     5.00        3.51      $ 4,981         307,712        51,842   

CDX-NAHY Series 22, 5 Year
Index, 06/20/19*

     5.00        3.51        2,474         152,862        31,689   

CDX-NAHY Series 22, 5 Year
Index, 06/20/19*

     5.00        3.51        2,682         165,691        28,987   


Clearing Broker/(Exchange) & Referenced Obligation

   Fixed Rate
(Pay)
Receive
    Implied Credit
Spread at
September 30,

2014
    Notional
Amount
(000)
     Market
Value
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

CDX-NAHY Series 22, 5 Year Index, 06/20/19*

     5.00     3.51   $ 3,831       $ 236,701       $ 7,346   

CDX-NAHY Series 22, 5 Year Index, 06/20/19*

     5.00        3.51        3,831         236,701         7,346   

CDX-NAHY Series 22, 5 Year Index, 06/20/19*

     5.00        3.51        12,474         770,624         (32,199

iTraxx-XOVER Series 21, 5 Year Index, 06/20/2019*

     5.00        2.57      EUR 6,060         809,359         (4,887
         

 

 

    

 

 

 
          $ 1,099,668       $ 415,899   
         

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

* Termination date

TOTAL RETURN SWAPS

 

Counterparty & Referenced Obligation

   # of
Shares
or
Units
     Rate Paid/
Received
  Notional
Amount
(000)
     Maturity
Date
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Receive Total Return on Reference Obligation

             

Bank of America, NA

             

MSCI AC Far East Ex Japan Index

     6,741       LIBOR Plus 0.28%   USD 2,553         10/15/14       $ (108,680

MSCI AC Far East Ex Japan Index

     8,220       LIBOR Plus 0.23%     3,113         11/17/14         (132,469

MSCI AC Far East Ex Japan Index

     6,978       LIBOR Plus 0.35%     2,643         12/15/14         (112,563

Russell 2000 Total Return Index

     109       LIBOR Minus 0.15%     587         10/15/14         (22,481

SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust

     5,487       LIBOR Plus 0.27%     1,092         6/15/15         (11,141

Deutsche Bank AG London

             

FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Real Estate Index

     181       LIBOR Plus 0.51%     730         10/15/14         (16,557

FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Real Estate Index

     18       LIBOR Plus 0.51%     73         10/15/14         (1,647

FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed xUS Net Total Return Index

     1,246       LIBOR Plus 0.40%     4,474         5/15/15         (141,034

Goldman Sachs International

             

Russell 2000 Total Return Index

     441       LIBOR Minus 0.60%     2,411         2/26/15         (126,583

Russell 2000 Total Return Index

     140       LIBOR Minus 0.65%     766         3/19/15         (40,594

Standard and Poor’s Midcap 400 Index

     5,816       LIBOR Plus 0.14%     11,561         3/16/15         (361,166

UBS AG

             

FTSE EPRA/NAREIT Developed Real Estate Index

     132       LIBOR Plus 0.5%     532         10/15/14         (12,073

Russell 2000 Total Return Index

     65       LIBOR Minus 0.19%     350         10/15/14         (13,401

Russell 2000 Total Return Index

     487       LIBOR Minus 0.23%     2,622         3/16/15         (100,366

Russell 2000 Total Return Index

     30       LIBOR Minus 0.21%     162         4/15/15         (6,184
             

 

 

 
              $ (1,206,939
             

 

 

 

 

(a) Non-income producing security.
(b) Fair valued by the Adviser.
(c) Illiquid security.
(d) Represents entire or partial securities out on loan.


(e) Security is exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. This security is considered liquid and may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At September 30, 2014, the market value of this security amounted to $12,392 or 0.0% of net assets.
(f) Position, or a portion thereof, has been segregated to collateralize OTC derivatives outstanding.
(g) One contract relates to 100 shares.
(h) To obtain a copy of the fund’s financial statements, please go to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov, or call AllianceBernstein at (800) 227-4618.
(i) Investment in affiliated money market mutual fund. The rate shown represents the 7-day yield as of period end.
(j) As of September 30, 2014, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $31,305,037 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(3,645,880), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $27,659,157.
(k) An amount of U.S. $3,893,474 has been segregated to collateralize margin requirements for the open futures contracts at September 30, 2014.

 

Currency Abbreviation:

 

AUD    -    Australian Dollar
CHF    -    Swiss Franc
EUR    -    Euro
GBP    -    Great British Pound
JPY    -    Japanese Yen
SEK    -    Swedish Krona
USD    -    United States Dollar

Glossary:

 

AC    -    All Country
CBT    -    Chicago Board of Trade
CDX-NAHY    -    North American High Yield Credit Default Swap Index
EAFE    -    Europe, Australia, and Far East
EPRA    -    European Public Real Estate Association
ETF    -    Exchange Traded Fund
FTSE    -    Financial Times Stock Exchange
INTRCONX    -    Inter-Continental Exchange
LIBOR    -    London Interbank Offered Rates
MSCI    -    Morgan Stanley Capital International
NAREIT    -    National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts
REG    -    Registered Shares
REIT    -    Real Estate Investment Trust
SPDR    -    Standard & Poor’s Depository Receipt
SPI    -    Share Price Index
TOPIX    -    Tokyo Price Index


AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

Dynamic Asset Allocation Portfolio

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized below.

 

   

Level 1—quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

   

Level 2—other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)

   

Level 3—significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

The fair value of debt instruments, such as bonds, and over-the-counter derivatives is generally based on market price quotations, recently executed market transactions (where observable) or industry recognized modeling techniques and are generally classified as Level 2. Pricing vendor inputs to Level 2 valuations may include quoted prices for similar investments in active markets, interest rate curves, coupon rates, currency rates, yield curves, option adjusted spreads, default rates, credit spreads and other unique security features in order to estimate the relevant cash flows which is then discounted to calculate fair values. If these inputs are unobservable and significant to the fair value, these investments will be classified as Level 3. In addition, non-agency rated investments are classified as Level 3.

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

Options and warrants are valued using market-based inputs to models, broker or dealer quotations, or alternative pricing sources with reasonable levels of price transparency, where such inputs and models are available. Alternatively the values may be obtained through unobservable management determined inputs and/or management’s proprietary models. Where models are used, the selection of a particular model to value an option or a warrant depends upon the contractual terms of, and specific risks inherent in, the option or warrant as well as the availability of pricing information in the market. Valuation models require a variety of inputs, including contractual terms, market prices, measures of volatility and correlations of such inputs. Exchange traded options will be classified as Level 2. For options or warrants that do not trade on exchange but trade in liquid markets, inputs can generally be verified and model selection does not involve significant management judgment. Options and warrants are classified within Level 2 on the fair value hierarchy when all of the significant inputs can be corroborated to market evidence. Otherwise such instruments are classified as Level 3.

Other fixed income investments, including non-U.S. government and corporate debt, are generally valued using quoted market prices, if available, which are typically impacted by current interest rates, maturity dates and any perceived credit risk of the issuer. Additionally, in the absence of quoted market prices, these inputs are used by pricing vendors to derive a valuation based upon industry or proprietary models which incorporate issuer specific data with relevant yield/spread comparisons with more widely quoted bonds with similar key characteristics. Those investments for which there are observable inputs are classified as Level 2. Where the inputs are not observable, the investments are classified as Level 3.

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2014:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1      Level 2      Level 3     Total  

Assets:

          

Common Stocks:

        

Financials

   $ 10,813,601       $ 14,542,127       $             – 0 ^ –    $ 25,355,728   

Health Care

     9,195,772         6,490,295         – 0  –      15,686,067   

Information Technology

     12,922,610         2,694,314         – 0  –      15,616,924   

Consumer Discretionary

     7,938,426         6,464,118         – 0  –      14,402,544   

Industrials

     6,846,218         7,151,749         – 0  –      13,997,967   

Consumer Staples

     6,350,734         6,254,833         – 0  –      12,605,567   

Energy

     6,415,601         3,891,544         – 0  –      10,307,145   

Materials

     2,327,114         4,301,149         – 0  –      6,628,263   

Telecommunication Services

     1,628,211         2,857,641         – 0  –      4,485,852   

Utilities

     2,021,775         2,138,237         – 0  –      4,160,012   


Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Governments - Treasuries

     – 0  –      93,093,242        – 0  –      93,093,242   

Investment Companies

     79,055,335        – 0  –      – 0  –      79,055,335   

Options Purchased - Puts

     – 0  –      255,900        – 0  –      255,900   

Rights

     2,681        – 0  –      – 0 ^ –      2,681   

Short-Term Investments

     135,843,301        – 0  –      – 0  –      135,843,301   

Investments of Cash Collateral for Securities Loaned in Affiliated Money Market Fund

     8,035,150        – 0  –      – 0  –      8,035,150   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     289,396,529        150,135,149        – 0  –      439,531,678   

Other Financial Instruments* :

        

Assets:

        

Futures

     6,940        516,187        – 0  –      523,127   

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      866,993        – 0  –      866,993   

Centrally Cleared Credit Default Swaps

     – 0  –      452,985        – 0  –      452,985   

Liabilities:

        

Futures

     (247,135     (101,475     – 0  –      (348,610

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      (654,008     – 0  –      (654,008

Centrally Cleared Credit Default Swaps

     – 0  –      (37,086     – 0  –      (37,086

Total Return Swaps

     – 0  –      (1,206,939     – 0  –      (1,206,939
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total^

   $ 289,156,334      $ 149,971,806      $             – 0  –   $ 439,128,140   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

^ The Portfolio held securities with zero market value at period end.
* Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/depreciation on the instrument.
^ There were de minimis transfers under 1% of net assets between Level 1 and Level 2 during the reporting period.

The Portfolio recognizes all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.

The following is a reconciliation of investments in which significant unobservable inputs (Level 3) were used in determining fair value.

 

     Common Stocks^     Rights^     Total  

Balance as of 12/31/13

   $ – 0  –    $             – 0  –    $ – 0  – 

Accrued discounts/(premiums)

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 

Realized gain (loss)

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 

Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation

     (14,304     – 0  –      (14,304

Purchases

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 

Sales

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 

Transfers in to Level 3

     14,304        – 0  –      14,304 

Transfers out of Level 3

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Balance as of 9/30/14

   $ – 0  –    $ – 0  –    $ – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation from Investments held as of 9/30/14

   $ – 0  –    $ – 0  –    $ – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

^ The Portfolio held securities with zero market value at period end.
+ There were de minimis transfers under 1% of net assets during the reporting period.

The Adviser has established a Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) which is responsible for overseeing the pricing and valuation of all securities held in the Portfolio. The Committee operates under pricing and valuation policies and procedures established by the Adviser and approved by the Board, including pricing policies which set forth the mechanisms and processes to be employed on a daily basis to implement these policies and procedures. In particular, the pricing policies describe how to determine market quotations for securities and other instruments. The Committee’s responsibilities include: 1) fair value and liquidity determinations (and oversight of any third parties to whom any responsibility for fair value and liquidity determinations is delegated), and 2) regular monitoring of the Adviser’s pricing and valuation policies and procedures and modification or enhancement of these policies and procedures (or recommendation of the modification of these policies and procedures) as the Committee believes appropriate.


The Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of the pricing policies by the Adviser’s Pricing Group (the “Pricing Group”) and a third party which performs certain pricing functions in accordance with the pricing policies. The Pricing Group is responsible for the oversight of the third party on a day-to-day basis. The Committee and the Pricing Group perform a series of activities to provide reasonable assurance of the accuracy of prices including: 1) periodic vendor due diligence meetings, review of methodologies, new developments and process at vendors, 2) daily compare of security valuation versus prior day for all securities that exceeded established thresholds, and 3) daily review of unpriced, stale, and variance reports with exceptions reviewed by senior management and the Committee.

In addition, several processes outside of the pricing process are used to monitor valuation issues including: 1) performance and performance attribution reports are monitored for anomalous impacts based upon benchmark performance, and 2) portfolio managers review all portfolios for performance and analytics (which are generated using the Adviser’s prices).


AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

Global Thematic Growth Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

 

Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

COMMON STOCKS - 100.1%

       

Consumer Discretionary - 23.7%

       

Auto Components - 1.6%

       

Delphi Automotive PLC

     34,620         $ 2,123,591   
       

 

 

 

Automobiles - 4.0%

       

Harley-Davidson, Inc.

     24,470           1,424,154   

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.

     111,400           1,078,368   

Tata Motors Ltd.-Class A

     242,474           1,347,851   

Volkswagen AG (Preference Shares)

     6,106           1,260,938   
       

 

 

 
          5,111,311   
       

 

 

 

Diversified Consumer Services - 1.6%

       

Kroton Educacional SA

     335,600           2,108,683   
       

 

 

 

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 3.2%

       

Alsea SAB de CV (a)

     263,205           831,132   

Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd. (ADR)

     54,240           1,425,970   

Yum! Brands, Inc.

     25,060           1,803,819   
       

 

 

 
          4,060,921   
       

 

 

 

Internet & Catalog Retail - 3.2%

       

Amazon.com, Inc. (a)

     4,063           1,310,074   

JD.com, Inc. (ADR) (a)(b)

     35,180           908,348   

Priceline Group, Inc. (The) (a)

     1,590           1,842,142   
       

 

 

 
          4,060,564   
       

 

 

 

Media - 1.2%

       

Walt Disney Co. (The)

     17,740           1,579,392   
       

 

 

 

Multiline Retail - 1.8%

       

Lojas Renner SA

     36,000           1,045,401   

Matahari Department Store Tbk PT

     919,000           1,224,181   
       

 

 

 
          2,269,582   
       

 

 

 

Specialty Retail - 1.8%

       

Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Ltd. (b)

     817,400           1,062,770   

Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.

     3,900           1,306,858   
       

 

 

 
          2,369,628   
       

 

 

 

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 5.3%

       

Cie Financiere Richemont SA

     23,390           1,911,925   

NIKE, Inc.-Class B

     29,330           2,616,236   

Prada SpA (b)

     137,200           826,804   

Samsonite International SA

     446,200           1,433,729   
       

 

 

 
          6,788,694   
       

 

 

 
          30,472,366   
       

 

 

 

Information Technology - 23.4%

       

Communications Equipment - 2.1%

       

CalAmp Corp. (a)

     56,340           992,711   

QUALCOMM, Inc.

     23,170           1,732,421   
       

 

 

 
          2,725,132   
       

 

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components - 1.0%

       

InvenSense, Inc. (a)(b)

     64,145           1,265,581   
       

 

 

 

Internet Software & Services - 5.0%

       

Google, Inc.-Class C (a)

     4,506           2,601,584   

LinkedIn Corp.-Class A (a)

     9,257           1,923,512   

Tencent Holdings Ltd.

     83,800           1,244,906   

Yelp, Inc. (a)

     10,556           720,447   
       

 

 

 
          6,490,449   
       

 

 

 

IT Services - 2.5%

       

QIWI PLC (Sponsored ADR)

     23,363           738,037   

Visa, Inc.-Class A

     11,390           2,430,284   
       

 

 

 
          3,168,321   
       

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 6.7%

       

AMS AG

     36,950           1,397,048   

Avago Technologies Ltd.

     19,790           1,721,730   

MediaTek, Inc.

     104,000           1,540,209   

NVIDIA Corp.

     53,728           991,282   

NXP Semiconductor NV (a)

     22,440           1,535,569   

Skyworks Solutions, Inc.

     23,570           1,368,238   
       

 

 

 
          8,554,076   
       

 

 

 

Software - 4.2%

       

Mobileye NV (a)(b)

     23,580           1,263,652   

NetSuite, Inc. (a)

     8,429           754,733   

Salesforce.com, Inc. (a)

     17,192           989,056   

ServiceNow, Inc. (a)

     18,150           1,066,857   

Verint Systems, Inc. (a)

     24,220           1,346,874   
       

 

 

 
          5,421,172   
       

 

 

 

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 1.9%

       

Apple, Inc.

     14,055           1,416,041   

Cray, Inc. (a)

     38,520           1,010,765   
       

 

 

 
          2,426,806   
       

 

 

 
          30,051,537   
       

 

 

 

Health Care - 16.1%

       

Biotechnology - 1.3%

       

Cepheid (a)

     36,697           1,615,769   
       

 

 

 

Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 1.8%

       

Elekta AB-Class B (b)

     73,740           724,813   

Essilor International SA

     14,980           1,642,821   
       

 

 

 
          2,367,634   
       

 

 

 

Health Care Providers & Services - 1.7%

       

UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

     25,350           2,186,437   
       

 

 

 

Life Sciences Tools & Services - 2.3%

       

Illumina, Inc. (a)

     7,821           1,282,019   

Quintiles Transnational Holdings, Inc. (a)

     30,708           1,712,892   
       

 

 

 
          2,994,911   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Pharmaceuticals - 9.0%

       

Allergan, Inc./United States

     8,090           1,441,557   

Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Ltd.

     49,820           1,483,369   

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

     33,310           1,704,806   

Kalbe Farma Tbk PT

     7,852,000           1,093,289   

Perrigo Co. PLC

     11,960           1,796,272   

Roche Holding AG

     7,500           2,214,772   

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

     126,730           1,751,364   
       

 

 

 
          11,485,429   
       

 

 

 
          20,650,180   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Staples - 13.4%

       

Beverages - 3.2%

       

Anheuser-Busch InBev NV

     20,350           2,256,772   

Diageo PLC

     62,760           1,810,131   
       

 

 

 
          4,066,903   
       

 

 

 

Food Products - 5.6%

       

Danone SA

     21,832           1,462,000   

Mead Johnson Nutrition Co.-Class A

     19,930           1,917,665   

Nestle SA

     20,480           1,505,095   

Universal Robina Corp.

     384,941           1,598,422   

WH Group Ltd. (a)(c)

     928,000           762,492   
       

 

 

 
          7,245,674   
       

 

 

 

Household Products - 3.4%

       

Colgate-Palmolive Co.

     36,500           2,380,530   

Unicharm Corp.

     89,700           2,044,389   
       

 

 

 
          4,424,919   
       

 

 

 

Personal Products - 1.2%

       

Estee Lauder Cos., Inc. (The)-Class A

     20,250           1,513,080   
       

 

 

 
          17,250,576   
       

 

 

 

Financials - 11.9%

       

Banks - 2.1%

       

Credicorp Ltd.

     8,330           1,277,739   

UniCredit SpA

     180,980           1,421,758   
       

 

 

 
          2,699,497   
       

 

 

 

Capital Markets - 1.2%

       

UBS AG (a)

     91,490           1,589,181   
       

 

 

 

Diversified Financial Services - 3.4%

       

ING Groep NV (a)

     111,220           1,580,905   

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.

     8,090           1,577,955   

London Stock Exchange Group PLC

     39,980           1,206,490   
       

 

 

 
          4,365,350   
       

 

 

 

Insurance - 2.6%

       

AIA Group Ltd.

     450,600           2,325,430   

St James’s Place PLC

     88,450           1,043,087   
       

 

 

 
          3,368,517   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Real Estate Management & Development - 1.3%

       

Global Logistic Properties Ltd.

     750,000           1,591,955   
       

 

 

 

Thrifts & Mortgage Finance - 1.3%

       

Housing Development Finance Corp.

     94,890           1,614,594   
       

 

 

 
          15,229,094   
       

 

 

 

Energy - 7.4%

       

Energy Equipment & Services - 3.5%

       

CAT Oil AG

     6,345           120,245   

Oceaneering International, Inc.

     27,320           1,780,444   

Schlumberger Ltd.

     25,500           2,593,095   
       

 

 

 
          4,493,784   
       

 

 

 

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 3.9%

       

Concho Resources, Inc. (a)

     19,615           2,459,525   

Noble Energy, Inc.

     37,010           2,530,003   
       

 

 

 
          4,989,528   
       

 

 

 
          9,483,312   
       

 

 

 

Materials - 1.8%

       

Chemicals - 1.8%

       

Monsanto Co.

     19,900           2,238,949   
       

 

 

 

Telecommunication Services - 1.2%

       

Wireless Telecommunication Services - 1.2%

       

SoftBank Corp.

     22,400           1,564,614   
       

 

 

 

Industrials - 1.2%

       

Machinery - 1.2%

       

FANUC Corp.

     5,800           1,048,946   

Proto Labs, Inc. (a)

     7,068           487,692   
       

 

 

 
          1,536,638   
       

 

 

 

Total Common Stocks
(cost $109,369,724)

          128,477,266   
       

 

 

 
     Principal
Amount

(000)
          

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 0.5%

       

Time Deposit - 0.5%

       

State Street Time Deposit
0.01%, 10/01/14
(cost $619,235)

   U.S.$ 619           619,235   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Total Investments Before Security Lending Collateral for Securities Loaned - 100.6%
(cost $109,988,959)

          129,096,501   
       

 

 

 

INVESTMENTS OF CASH COLLATERAL FOR SECURITIES LOANED - 4.5%

       

Investment Companies - 4.5%

       

AllianceBernstein Exchange Reserves-Class I,
0.04% (d)(e)
(cost $5,798,329)

     5,798,329           5,798,329   
       

 

 

 

Total Investments - 105.1%
(cost $115,787,288) (f)

          134,894,830   

Other assets less liabilities - (5.1)%

          (6,501,384
       

 

 

 

Net Assets - 100.0%

        $ 128,393,446   
       

 

 

 

FORWARD CURRENCY EXCHANGE CONTRACTS

 

Counterparty

   Contracts to
Deliver
(000)
     In Exchange
For
(000)
     Settlement
Date
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

BNP Paribas SA

     USD         1,864         AUD         2,010         12/15/14       $ (113,692

Citibank, NA

     USD         387         CAD         423         12/15/14         (9,840

Credit Suisse International

     BRL         4,243         USD         1,731         10/02/14         (2,299

Credit Suisse International

     USD         1,759         BRL         4,243         10/02/14         (25,692

Credit Suisse International

     BRL         4,243         USD         1,744         11/04/14         25,521   

Credit Suisse International

     USD         396         RUB         15,503         12/15/14         (10,110

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

     BRL         4,243         USD         1,851         10/02/14         117,914   

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

     USD         1,731         BRL         4,243         10/02/14         2,298   

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

     USD         1,747         GBP         1,083         12/15/14         8,026   

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

     USD         1,259         GBP         749         12/15/14         (45,845

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

     USD         3,019         JPY         316,554         12/15/14         (131,097

Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.

     CHF         686         USD         747         12/15/14         28,414   

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

     RUB         32,458         USD         856         12/15/14         47,746   

Standard Chartered Bank

     HKD         43,636         USD         5,631         12/15/14         12,220   

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     CHF         2,562         USD         2,751         12/15/14         65,701   

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     HKD         2,248         USD         290         12/15/14         614   

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD         938         EUR         724         12/15/14         (22,610

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD         369         NOK         2,339         12/15/14         (5,851

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD         322         SEK         2,283         12/15/14         (5,665

UBS AG

     USD         1,998         CAD         2,195         12/15/14         (42,016
                 

 

 

 
   $ (106,263
                 

 

 

 

 

(a) Non-income producing security.
(b) Represents entire or partial securities out on loan.
(c) Security is exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. This security is considered liquid and may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At September 30, 2014, the market value of this security amounted to $762,492 or 0.6% of net assets.
(d) Investment in affiliated money market mutual fund. The rate shown represents the 7-day yield as of period end.


(e) To obtain a copy of the fund’s financial statements, please go to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov, or call AllianceBernstein at (800) 227-4618.
(f) As of September 30, 2014, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $21,848,844 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(2,741,302), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $19,107,542.

Please note: The sector classifications presented herein are based on the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) which was developed by Morgan Stanley Capital International and Standard & Poor’s. The components are divided into sector, industry group, and industry sub-indices as classified by the GICS for each of the market capitalization indices in the broad market.

Currency Abbreviations:

 

AUD    -    Australian Dollar
BRL    -    Brazilian Real
CAD    -    Canadian Dollar
CHF    -    Swiss Franc
EUR    -    Euro
GBP    -    Great British Pound
HKD    -    Hong Kong Dollar
JPY    -    Japanese Yen
NOK    -    Norwegian Krone
RUB    -    Russian Ruble
SEK    -    Swedish Krona
USD    -    United States Dollar

Glossary:

 

ADR    -    American Depositary Receipt

Country Breakdown *

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

 

  50.4%        

United States

  5.6%        

Switzerland

  5.5%        

Japan

  4.8%        

United Kingdom

  4.3%        

Hong Kong

  3.7%        

India

  2.6%        

Singapore

  2.4%        

Brazil

  2.4%        

Netherlands

  2.4%        

France

  1.8%        

Indonesia

  1.7%        

Belgium

  1.7%        

Italy

  10.2%        

Other

  0.5%        

Short-Term

 

 

      
  100.0%        

Total Investments

 

 

      

 

* All data are as of September 30, 2014. The Portfolio’s country breakdown is expressed as a percentage of total investments (excluding Securities Lending) and may vary over time. “Other” country weightings represent 1.7% or less in the following countries: Austria, China, Germany, Mexico, Peru, Philippines, Russia, South Africa, Sweden and Taiwan.


AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

Global Thematic Growth Portfolio

March 31, 2014 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized below.

 

   

Level 1—quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

   

Level 2—other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)

   

Level 3—significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

The fair value of debt instruments, such as bonds, and over-the-counter derivatives is generally based on market price quotations, recently executed market transactions (where observable) or industry recognized modeling techniques and are generally classified as Level 2. Pricing vendor inputs to Level 2 valuations may include quoted prices for similar investments in active markets, interest rate curves, coupon rates, currency rates, yield curves, option adjusted spreads, default rates, credit spreads and other unique security features in order to estimate the relevant cash flows which is then discounted to calculate fair values. If these inputs are unobservable and significant to the fair value, these investments will be classified as Level 3. In addition, non-agency rated investments are classified as Level 3.

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

Other fixed income investments, including non-U.S. government and corporate debt, are generally valued using quoted market prices, if available, which are typically impacted by current interest rates, maturity dates and any perceived credit risk of the issuer. Additionally, in the absence of quoted market prices, these inputs are used by pricing vendors to derive a valuation based upon industry or proprietary models which incorporate issuer specific data with relevant yield/spread comparisons with more widely quoted bonds with similar key characteristics. Those investments for which there are observable inputs are classified as Level 2. Where the inputs are not observable, the investments are classified as Level 3.

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of March 31, 2014:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Assets:

        

Common Stocks:

      

Information Technology

   $ 31,603,372      $ 3,896,557      $ – 0  –    $ 35,499,929   

Consumer Discretionary

     18,052,676        9,263,633        – 0  –      27,316,309   

Health Care

     13,366,226        7,613,952        – 0  –      20,980,178   

Consumer Staples

     4,174,868        11,453,227        – 0  –      15,628,095   

Financials

     4,810,562        6,996,530        – 0  –      11,807,092   

Energy

     9,931,005        1,578,676        – 0  –      11,509,681   

Industrials

     1,409,769        1,043,073        – 0  –      2,452,842   

Materials

     2,077,440        – 0  –      – 0  –      2,077,440   

Telecommunication Services

     – 0  –      1,738,069        – 0  –      1,738,069   

Short-Term Investments

     – 0  –      4,821,004        – 0  –      4,821,004   

Investments of Cash Collateral for Securities Loaned in Affiliated Money Market Fund

     3,223,315        – 0  –      – 0  –      3,223,315   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     88,649,233        48,404,721     – 0  –      137,053,954   

Other Financial Instruments* :

        

Assets:

        

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      173,324        – 0  –      173,324   

Liabilities:

      

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      (299,115     – 0  –      (299,115
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total^

   $     88,649,233      $     48,278,930      $     – 0  –    $     136,928,163   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 


* Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/depreciation on the instrument.
+ A significant portion of the Portfolio’s foreign equity investments are categorized as Level 2 investments since they are valued using fair value prices based on third party vendor modeling tools to the extent available.
^ There were de minimis transfers under 1% of net assets between Level 1 and Level 2 during the reporting period.

The Portfolio recognizes all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.

The Adviser has established a Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) which is responsible for overseeing the pricing and valuation of all securities held in the Portfolio. The Committee operates under pricing and valuation policies and procedures established by the Adviser and approved by the Board, including pricing policies which set forth the mechanisms and processes to be employed on a daily basis to implement these policies and procedures. In particular, the pricing policies describe how to determine market quotations for securities and other instruments. The Committee’s responsibilities include: 1) fair value and liquidity determinations (and oversight of any third parties to whom any responsibility for fair value and liquidity determinations is delegated), and 2) regular monitoring of the Adviser’s pricing and valuation policies and procedures and modification or enhancement of these policies and procedures (or recommendation of the modification of these policies and procedures) as the Committee believes appropriate.

The Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of the pricing policies by the Adviser’s Pricing Group (the “Pricing Group”) and a third party which performs certain pricing functions in accordance with the pricing policies. The Pricing Group is responsible for the oversight of the third party on a day-to-day basis. The Committee and the Pricing Group perform a series of activities to provide reasonable assurance of the accuracy of prices including: 1) periodic vendor due diligence meetings, review of methodologies, new developments and process at vendors, 2) daily compare of security valuation versus prior day for all securities that exceeded established thresholds, and 3) daily review of unpriced, stale, and variance reports with exceptions reviewed by senior management and the Committee.

In addition, several processes outside of the pricing process are used to monitor valuation issues including: 1) performance and performance attribution reports are monitored for anomalous impacts based upon benchmark performance, and 2) portfolio managers review all portfolios for performance and analytics (which are generated using the Adviser’s prices).


AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

Growth Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

 

Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

COMMON STOCKS - 98.2%

       

Information Technology - 27.2%

       

Communications Equipment - 1.4%

       

F5 Networks, Inc. (a)

     8,649         $ 1,026,982   
       

 

 

 

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components - 0.8%

       

Amphenol Corp.-Class A

     5,572           556,420   
       

 

 

 

Internet Software & Services - 8.4%

       

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (ADR) (a)

     5,195           461,576   

Facebook, Inc.-Class A (a)

     22,497           1,778,163   

Google, Inc.-Class A (a)

     3,379           1,988,237   

Google, Inc.-Class C (a)

     3,137           1,811,178   
       

 

 

 
          6,039,154   
       

 

 

 

IT Services - 2.9%

       

Visa, Inc.-Class A

     9,583           2,044,725   
       

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 2.2%

       

Altera Corp.

     10,040           359,231   

Micron Technology, Inc. (a)

     16,920           579,680   

NXP Semiconductor NV (a)

     9,363           640,710   
       

 

 

 
          1,579,621   
       

 

 

 

Software - 6.6%

       

ANSYS, Inc. (a)

     9,576           724,616   

Aspen Technology, Inc. (a)

     16,302           614,912   

Concur Technologies, Inc. (a)

     5,645           715,899   

Microsoft Corp.

     20,790           963,824   

NetSuite, Inc. (a)

     4,260           381,440   

ServiceNow, Inc. (a)

     5,957           350,153   

Tableau Software, Inc.-Class A (a)

     5,676           412,361   

Ultimate Software Group, Inc. (The) (a)

     3,876           548,493   
       

 

 

 
          4,711,698   
       

 

 

 

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 4.9%

       

Apple, Inc.

     35,175           3,543,881   
       

 

 

 
          19,502,481   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Discretionary - 21.1%

       

Automobiles - 1.0%

       

Harley-Davidson, Inc.

     12,650           736,230   
       

 

 

 

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 2.6%

       

Starbucks Corp.

     25,080           1,892,537   
       

 

 

 

Internet & Catalog Retail - 2.5%

       

Priceline Group, Inc. (The) (a)

     1,557           1,803,909   
       

 

 

 

Leisure Products - 0.7%

       

Polaris Industries, Inc.

     3,216           481,725   
       

 

 

 

Media - 4.7%

       

AMC Networks, Inc.-Class A (a)

     7,147           417,528   

Comcast Corp.-Class A

     41,355           2,224,072   

Walt Disney Co. (The)

     8,338           742,332   
       

 

 

 
          3,383,932   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Specialty Retail - 7.2%

       

Five Below, Inc. (a)

     7,669           303,769   

Home Depot, Inc. (The)

     19,069           1,749,390   

Lowe’s Cos., Inc.

     18,992           1,005,057   

O’Reilly Automotive, Inc. (a)

     3,326           500,097   

Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc. (a)

     8,842           1,044,859   

Urban Outfitters, Inc. (a)

     14,406           528,700   
       

 

 

 
          5,131,872   
       

 

 

 

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 2.4%

       

Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. (a)

     4,830           344,814   

NIKE, Inc.-Class B

     15,196           1,355,483   
       

 

 

 
          1,700,297   
       

 

 

 
          15,130,502   
       

 

 

 

Health Care - 17.4%

       

Biotechnology - 6.2%

       

Biogen Idec, Inc. (a)

     4,553           1,506,178   

Gilead Sciences, Inc. (a)

     21,180           2,254,611   

Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)

     6,083           683,182   
       

 

 

 
          4,443,971   
       

 

 

 

Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 2.3%

       

HeartWare International, Inc. (a)

     3,829           297,245   

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (a)

     2,913           1,345,282   
       

 

 

 
          1,642,527   
       

 

 

 

Health Care Providers & Services - 1.8%

       

McKesson Corp.

     3,613           703,343   

UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

     6,418           553,552   
       

 

 

 
          1,256,895   
       

 

 

 

Life Sciences Tools & Services - 1.4%

       

Quintiles Transnational Holdings, Inc. (a)

     18,535           1,033,882   
       

 

 

 

Pharmaceuticals - 5.7%

       

Allergan, Inc./United States

     15,351           2,735,395   

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

     15,516           794,109   

Endo International PLC (a)

     8,609           588,339   
       

 

 

 
          4,117,843   
       

 

 

 
          12,495,118   
       

 

 

 

Industrials - 11.2%

       

Aerospace & Defense - 2.5%

       

Boeing Co. (The)

     9,371           1,193,678   

Precision Castparts Corp.

     2,429           575,381   
       

 

 

 
          1,769,059   
       

 

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Airlines - 0.9%

       

Copa Holdings SA-Class A

     6,097           654,147   
       

 

 

 

Electrical Equipment - 1.4%

       

AMETEK, Inc.

     19,522           980,200   
       

 

 

 

Industrial Conglomerates - 1.9%

       

Danaher Corp.

     18,226           1,384,811   
       

 

 

 

Machinery - 2.1%

       

Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc.

     8,603           594,769   

Pall Corp.

     4,996           418,165   

Parker-Hannifin Corp.

     4,176           476,690   
       

 

 

 
          1,489,624   
       

 

 

 

Marine - 0.7%

       

Kirby Corp. (a)

     4,243           500,038   
       

 

 

 

Professional Services - 1.7%

       

Nielsen NV

     11,954           529,921   

Robert Half International, Inc.

     14,820           726,180   
       

 

 

 
          1,256,101   
       

 

 

 
          8,033,980   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Staples - 11.1%

       

Beverages - 2.4%

       

Monster Beverage Corp. (a)

     19,133           1,753,922   
       

 

 

 

Food & Staples Retailing - 4.3%

       

Costco Wholesale Corp.

     12,315           1,543,316   

CVS Health Corp.

     19,030           1,514,598   
       

 

 

 
          3,057,914   
       

 

 

 

Food Products - 3.1%

       

Keurig Green Mountain, Inc.

     10,157           1,321,730   

Mead Johnson Nutrition Co.-Class A

     9,072           872,908   
       

 

 

 
          2,194,638   
       

 

 

 

Personal Products - 1.3%

       

Estee Lauder Cos., Inc. (The)-Class A

     12,467           931,534   
       

 

 

 
          7,938,008   
       

 

 

 

Financials - 4.4%

       

Capital Markets - 2.9%

       

Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. (a)

     4,191           839,709   

BlackRock, Inc.-Class A

     3,656           1,200,338   
       

 

 

 
          2,040,047   
       

 

 

 

Diversified Financial Services - 1.5%

       

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.

     5,645           1,101,057   
       

 

 

 
          3,141,104   
       

 

 

 

Energy - 4.3%

       

Energy Equipment & Services - 2.7%

       

Schlumberger Ltd.

     19,076           1,939,838   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 1.6%

       

Antero Resources Corp. (a)(b)

     6,597           362,109   

Range Resources Corp.

     11,223           761,032   
       

 

 

 
       1,123,141   
       

 

 

 
       3,062,979   
       

 

 

 

Materials - 1.5%

       

Chemicals - 1.5%

       

Monsanto Co.

     9,762           1,098,322   
       

 

 

 

Total Common Stocks
(cost $53,555,811)

   

       70,402,494   
       

 

 

 
      Principal
Amount
(000)
          

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 1.5%

       

Time Deposit - 1.5%

       

State Street Time Deposit
0.01%, 10/01/14
(cost $1,052,567)

   $ 1,053           1,052,567   
       

 

 

 

Total Investments Before Security Lending Collateral for Securities Loaned - 99.7%
(cost $54,608,378)

   

       71,455,061   
       

 

 

 
      Shares           

INVESTMENTS OF CASH COLLATERAL FOR SECURITIES LOANED - 0.5%

       

Investment Companies - 0.5%

       

AllianceBernstein Exchange Reserves-Class I,
0.04% (c)(d)
(cost $383,748)

     383,748           383,748   
       

 

 

 

Total Investments - 100.2%
(cost $54,992,126) (e)

   

       71,838,809   

Other assets less liabilities - (0.2)%

  

       (133,127
       

 

 

 

Net Assets – 100.0%

  

     $ 71,705,682   
       

 

 

 

 

(a) Non-income producing security.
(b) Represents entire or partial securities out on loan.
(c) Investment in affiliated money market mutual fund. The rate shown represents the 7-day yield as of period end.
(d) To obtain a copy of the fund’s financial statements, please go to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov, or call AllianceBernstein at (800) 227-4618.
(e) As of September 30, 2014, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $17,646,036 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(799,353), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $16,846,683.

Please note: The sector classifications presented herein are based on the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) which was developed by Morgan Stanley Capital International and Standard & Poor’s. The components are divided into sector, industry group, and industry sub-indices as classified by the GICS for each of the market capitalization indices in the broad market.

Glossary:

 

ADR    -    American Depositary Receipt


AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

Growth Portfolio

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized below.

 

   

Level 1—quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

   

Level 2—other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)

   

Level 3—significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

The fair value of debt instruments, such as bonds, and over-the-counter derivatives is generally based on market price quotations, recently executed market transactions (where observable) or industry recognized modeling techniques and are generally classified as Level 2. Pricing vendor inputs to Level 2 valuations may include quoted prices for similar investments in active markets, interest rate curves, coupon rates, currency rates, yield curves, option adjusted spreads, default rates, credit spreads and other unique security features in order to estimate the relevant cash flows which is then discounted to calculate fair values. If these inputs are unobservable and significant to the fair value, these investments will be classified as Level 3. In addition, non-agency rated investments are classified as Level 3.

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

Other fixed income investments, including non-U.S. government and corporate debt, are generally valued using quoted market prices, if available, which are typically impacted by current interest rates, maturity dates and any perceived credit risk of the issuer. Additionally, in the absence of quoted market prices, these inputs are used by pricing vendors to derive a valuation based upon industry or proprietary models which incorporate issuer specific data with relevant yield/spread comparisons with more widely quoted bonds with similar key characteristics. Those investments for which there are observable inputs are classified as Level 2. Where the inputs are not observable, the investments are classified as Level 3.

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2014:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Assets:

        

Common Stocks*

   $ 70,402,494      $ – 0  –    $             – 0  –    $ 70,402,494   

Short-Term Investments

     – 0  –      1,052,567        – 0  –      1,052,567   

Investments of Cash Collateral for Securities Loaned in Affiliated Money Market Fund

     383,748        – 0  –      – 0  –      383,748   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     70,786,242        1,052,567        – 0  –      71,838,809   

Other Financial Instruments**

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total+

   $     70,786,242      $     1,052,567      $     – 0  –    $     71,838,809   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

* See Portfolio of Investments for sector classifications.
** Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/depreciation on the instrument.
+ There were no transfers between any levels during the reporting period.

The Portfolio recognizes all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.


The Adviser has established a Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) which is responsible for overseeing the pricing and valuation of all securities held in the Portfolio. The Committee operates under pricing and valuation policies and procedures established by the Adviser and approved by the Board, including pricing policies which set forth the mechanisms and processes to be employed on a daily basis to implement these policies and procedures. In particular, the pricing policies describe how to determine market quotations for securities and other instruments. The Committee’s responsibilities include: 1) fair value and liquidity determinations (and oversight of any third parties to whom any responsibility for fair value and liquidity determinations is delegated), and 2) regular monitoring of the Adviser’s pricing and valuation policies and procedures and modification or enhancement of these policies and procedures (or recommendation of the modification of these policies and procedures) as the Committee believes appropriate.

The Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of the pricing policies by the Adviser’s Pricing Group (the “Pricing Group”) and a third party which performs certain pricing functions in accordance with the pricing policies. The Pricing Group is responsible for the oversight of the third party on a day-to-day basis. The Committee and the Pricing Group perform a series of activities to provide reasonable assurance of the accuracy of prices including: 1) periodic vendor due diligence meetings, review of methodologies, new developments and process at vendors, 2) daily compare of security valuation versus prior day for all securities that exceeded established thresholds, and 3) daily review of unpriced, stale, and variance reports with exceptions reviewed by senior management and the Committee.

In addition, several processes outside of the pricing process are used to monitor valuation issues including: 1) performance and performance attribution reports are monitored for anomalous impacts based upon benchmark performance, and 2) portfolio managers review all portfolios for performance and analytics (which are generated using the Adviser’s prices).


AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

Growth & Income Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

 

Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

COMMON STOCKS - 92.6%

       

Financials - 22.8%

       

Banks - 6.5%

       

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

     478,060         $ 28,798,334   

Wells Fargo & Co.

     506,250           26,259,188   
       

 

 

 
          55,057,522   
       

 

 

 

Capital Markets - 3.5%

       

BlackRock, Inc.-Class A

     43,680           14,341,018   

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The)

     45,330           8,321,228   

State Street Corp.

     100,900           7,427,249   
       

 

 

 
          30,089,495   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Finance - 1.2%

       

Capital One Financial Corp.

     122,790           10,022,120   
       

 

 

 

Diversified Financial Services - 4.8%

       

Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.-Class B (a)

     296,232           40,921,488   
       

 

 

 

Insurance - 6.8%

       

ACE Ltd.

     164,870           17,289,917   

Allstate Corp. (The)

     134,360           8,245,673   

Aon PLC

     88,110           7,724,604   

Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (The)

     180,790           6,734,427   

MetLife, Inc.

     60,972           3,275,416   

Validus Holdings Ltd.

     225,506           8,826,305   

WR Berkley Corp.

     109,060           5,213,068   
       

 

 

 
          57,309,410   
       

 

 

 
          193,400,035   
       

 

 

 

Health Care - 15.6%

       

Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 3.1%

       

Abbott Laboratories

     292,490           12,164,659   

Medtronic, Inc.

     233,550           14,468,423   
       

 

 

 
          26,633,082   
       

 

 

 

Health Care Providers & Services - 2.9%

       

UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

     280,670           24,207,787   
       

 

 

 

Pharmaceuticals - 9.6%

       

Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.

     108,230           5,539,211   

Eli Lilly & Co.

     310,370           20,127,494   

Merck & Co., Inc.

     358,409           21,246,486   

Pfizer, Inc.

     1,154,170           34,128,807   
       

 

 

 
          81,041,998   
       

 

 

 
          131,882,867   
       

 

 

 

Information Technology - 14.1%

       

Communications Equipment - 0.8%

       

Cisco Systems, Inc.

     138,650           3,489,820   

Juniper Networks, Inc.

     137,980           3,056,257   
       

 

 

 
          6,546,077   
       

 

 

 

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components - 1.6%

       

TE Connectivity Ltd.

     245,310           13,563,190   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

IT Services – 1.7%

       

Amdocs Ltd.

     69,174           3,173,703   

Xerox Corp.

     876,770           11,599,667   
       

 

 

 
          14,773,370   
       

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment – 3.0%

       

Altera Corp.

     184,860           6,614,291   

Intel Corp.

     246,260           8,574,773   

NVIDIA Corp.

     557,640           10,288,458   
       

 

 

 
          25,477,522   
       

 

 

 

Software - 3.7%

       

Activision Blizzard, Inc.

     480,010           9,979,408   

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (a)

     104,801           7,256,421   

Microsoft Corp.

     304,980           14,138,873   
       

 

 

 
          31,374,702   
       

 

 

 

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 3.3%

       

Apple, Inc.

     163,115           16,433,836   

EMC Corp./MA

     168,750           4,937,625   

NetApp, Inc.

     156,510           6,723,670   
       

 

 

 
          28,095,131   
       

 

 

 
          119,829,992   
       

 

 

 

Industrials - 11.5%

       

Aerospace & Defense - 5.0%

       

Boeing Co. (The)

     155,080           19,754,091   

Raytheon Co.

     219,710           22,326,930   
       

 

 

 
          42,081,021   
       

 

 

 

Airlines - 3.0%

       

Copa Holdings SA-Class A

     176,160           18,900,206   

Delta Air Lines, Inc.

     174,470           6,307,091   
       

 

 

 
          25,207,297   
       

 

 

 

Industrial Conglomerates - 2.2%

       

General Electric Co.

     716,420           18,354,680   
       

 

 

 

Machinery - 1.0%

       

Actuant Corp.-Class A

     91,790           2,801,431   

Parker-Hannifin Corp.

     52,320           5,972,328   
       

 

 

 
          8,773,759   
       

 

 

 

Trading Companies & Distributors - 0.3%

       

WESCO International, Inc. (a)

     33,182           2,596,823   
       

 

 

 
          97,013,580   
       

 

 

 

Energy - 10.4%

       

Energy Equipment & Services - 0.7%

       

Cameron International Corp. (a)

     95,420           6,333,980   
       

 

 

 

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 9.7%

       

Chevron Corp.

     91,900           10,965,508   

ConocoPhillips

     96,750           7,403,310   

Exxon Mobil Corp.

     242,660           22,822,173   

Hess Corp.

     120,910           11,404,231   


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Marathon Oil Corp.

     474,470           17,835,327   

Occidental Petroleum Corp.

     122,370           11,765,876   
       

 

 

 
       82,196,425   
       

 

 

 
       88,530,405   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Discretionary - 8.8%

       

Internet & Catalog Retail - 0.9%

       

Liberty Interactive Corp.-Class A (a)

     273,308           7,794,744   
       

 

 

 

Media - 7.5%

       

Comcast Corp.-Class A

     546,200           29,374,636   

Scripps Networks Interactive, Inc.-Class A

     82,910           6,474,442   

Time Warner Cable, Inc.-Class A

     97,559           13,998,741   

Time Warner, Inc.

     101,570           7,639,080   

Viacom, Inc.-Class B

     79,950           6,151,353   
       

 

 

 
       63,638,252   
       

 

 

 

Multiline Retail - 0.4%

       

Macy’s, Inc.

     54,690           3,181,864   
       

 

 

 
       74,614,860   
       

 

 

 

Telecommunication Services - 3.3%

       

Diversified Telecommunication Services - 3.3%

       

Verizon Communications, Inc.

     558,590           27,923,914   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Staples - 3.1%

       

Food & Staples Retailing - 3.1%

       

CVS Health Corp.

     332,707           26,480,150   
       

 

 

 

Utilities - 2.3%

       

Electric Utilities - 1.1%

       

Great Plains Energy, Inc.

     399,610           9,658,574   
       

 

 

 

Multi-Utilities - 1.2%

       

Wisconsin Energy Corp.

     231,160           9,939,880   
       

 

 

 
       19,598,454   
       

 

 

 

Materials - 0.7%

       

Chemicals - 0.4%

       

Eastman Chemical Co.

     37,640           3,044,700   
       

 

 

 

Metals & Mining - 0.3%

       

BHP Billiton Ltd. (Sponsored ADR)

     43,830           2,580,710   
       

 

 

 
       5,625,410   
       

 

 

 

Total Common Stocks
(cost $619,182,628)

   

       784,899,667   
       

 

 

 
      Principal
Amount
(000)
          

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 7.6%

       

Time Deposit - 7.6%

       

State Street Time Deposit
0.01%, 10/01/14
(cost $64,801,897)

   $ 64,802           64,801,897   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares      U.S. $ Value  

Total Investments - 100.2%
(cost $683,984,525) (b)

       849,701,564   

Other assets less liabilities - (0.2)%

          (1,566,193
       

 

 

 

Net Assets - 100.0%

        $ 848,135,371   
       

 

 

 

 

(a) Non-income producing security.
(b) As of September 30, 2014, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $175,244,892 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(9,527,853), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $165,717,039.

Please note: The sector classifications presented herein are based on the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) which was developed by Morgan Stanley Capital International and Standard & Poor’s. The components are divided into sector, industry group, and industry sub-indices as classified by the GICS for each of the market capitalization indices in the broad market.

Glossary:

 

ADR    -    American Depositary Receipt


AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

Growth & Income Portfolio

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized below.

 

   

Level 1—quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

   

Level 2—other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)

   

Level 3—significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

The fair value of debt instruments, such as bonds, and over-the-counter derivatives is generally based on market price quotations, recently executed market transactions (where observable) or industry recognized modeling techniques and are generally classified as Level 2. Pricing vendor inputs to Level 2 valuations may include quoted prices for similar investments in active markets, interest rate curves, coupon rates, currency rates, yield curves, option adjusted spreads, default rates, credit spreads and other unique security features in order to estimate the relevant cash flows which is then discounted to calculate fair values. If these inputs are unobservable and significant to the fair value, these investments will be classified as Level 3. In addition, non-agency rated investments are classified as Level 3.

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

Other fixed income investments, including non-U.S. government and corporate debt, are generally valued using quoted market prices, if available, which are typically impacted by current interest rates, maturity dates and any perceived credit risk of the issuer. Additionally, in the absence of quoted market prices, these inputs are used by pricing vendors to derive a valuation based upon industry or proprietary models which incorporate issuer specific data with relevant yield/spread comparisons with more widely quoted bonds with similar key characteristics. Those investments for which there are observable inputs are classified as Level 2. Where the inputs are not observable, the investments are classified as Level 3.

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2014:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Assets:

        

Common Stocks*

   $ 784,899,667      $ – 0  –    $ – 0  –    $ 784,899,667   

Short-Term Investments

     – 0  –      64,801,897        – 0  –      64,801,897   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     784,899,667        64,801,897        – 0  –      849,701,564   

Other Financial Instruments**

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total^

   $ 784,899,667      $ 64,801,897      $  – 0  –    $ 849,701,564   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

* See Portfolio of Investments for sector classifications.
** Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/depreciation on the instrument.
^ There were no transfers between any levels during the reporting period.

The Portfolio recognizes all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.


The Adviser has established a Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) which is responsible for overseeing the pricing and valuation of all securities held in the Portfolio. The Committee operates under pricing and valuation policies and procedures established by the Adviser and approved by the Board, including pricing policies which set forth the mechanisms and processes to be employed on a daily basis to implement these policies and procedures. In particular, the pricing policies describe how to determine market quotations for securities and other instruments. The Committee’s responsibilities include: 1) fair value and liquidity determinations (and oversight of any third parties to whom any responsibility for fair value and liquidity determinations is delegated), and 2) regular monitoring of the Adviser’s pricing and valuation policies and procedures and modification or enhancement of these policies and procedures (or recommendation of the modification of these policies and procedures) as the Committee believes appropriate.

The Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of the pricing policies by the Adviser’s Pricing Group (the “Pricing Group”) and a third party which performs certain pricing functions in accordance with the pricing policies. The Pricing Group is responsible for the oversight of the third party on a day-to-day basis. The Committee and the Pricing Group perform a series of activities to provide reasonable assurance of the accuracy of prices including: 1) periodic vendor due diligence meetings, review of methodologies, new developments and process at vendors, 2) daily compare of security valuation versus prior day for all securities that exceeded established thresholds, and 3) daily review of unpriced, stale, and variance reports with exceptions reviewed by senior management and the Committee.

In addition, several processes outside of the pricing process are used to monitor valuation issues including: 1) performance and performance attribution reports are monitored for anomalous impacts based upon benchmark performance, and 2) portfolio managers review all portfolios for performance and analytics (which are generated using the Adviser’s prices).


AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

Intermediate Bond Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

 

Company

   Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

GOVERNMENTS - TREASURIES - 21.0%

       

New Zealand - 1.2%

       

New Zealand Government Bond

       

Series 319

       

5.00%, 3/15/19 (a)

   NZD     1,170         $ 950,872   
       

 

 

 

United States - 19.8%

       

U.S. Treasury Bonds

       

3.125%, 8/15/44

   U.S.$ 485           477,270   

3.625%, 8/15/43-2/15/44

     786           849,526   

3.75%, 11/15/43

     195           215,536   

4.50%, 2/15/36

     654           807,673   

4.625%, 2/15/40

     2,560           3,242,399   

U.S. Treasury Notes

       

0.125%, 4/30/15

     835           835,326   

0.375%, 3/31/16

     943           943,221   

1.50%, 8/31/18-5/31/19

     354           352,157   

1.625%, 6/30/19

     1,502           1,494,021   

2.375%, 8/15/24

     1,691           1,671,449   

2.50%, 8/15/23-5/15/24

     3,651           3,654,525   

2.75%, 11/15/23-2/15/24

     1,014           1,039,087   
       

 

 

 
          15,582,190   
       

 

 

 

Total Governments - Treasuries
(cost $15,980,566)

          16,533,062   
       

 

 

 

CORPORATES - INVESTMENT GRADES - 20.3%

       

Industrial - 12.1%

       

Basic - 1.8%

       

Basell Finance Co. BV

       

8.10%, 3/15/27 (a)

     85           113,074   

Cia Minera Milpo SAA

       

4.625%, 3/28/23 (a)

     260           255,770   

Dow Chemical Co. (The)

       

8.55%, 5/15/19

     86           108,088   

Glencore Funding LLC

       

4.125%, 5/30/23 (a)

     58           57,403   

International Paper Co.

       

3.65%, 6/15/24

     49           47,542   

4.75%, 2/15/22

     65           70,046   

LyondellBasell Industries NV

       

5.75%, 4/15/24

     200           232,198   

Minsur SA

       

6.25%, 2/07/24 (a)

     210           229,623   

Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile SA

       

3.625%, 4/03/23 (a)

     260           245,265   

Vale SA

       

5.625%, 9/11/42

     69           67,511   
       

 

 

 
          1,426,520   
       

 

 

 

Capital Goods - 0.4%

       

Owens Corning

       

6.50%, 12/01/16 (b)

     160           176,263   


Company

   Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Yamana Gold, Inc.

       

4.95%, 7/15/24 (a)

     166           165,248   
       

 

 

 
          341,511   
       

 

 

 

Communications - Media - 1.9%

       

21st Century Fox America, Inc.

       

4.00%, 10/01/23

     64           66,262   

4.50%, 2/15/21

     300           325,935   

DirecTV Holdings LLC/DirecTV Financing Co., Inc.

       

3.50%, 3/01/16

     95           98,315   

3.80%, 3/15/22

     57           57,933   

4.45%, 4/01/24

     81           84,358   

5.20%, 3/15/20

     24           26,878   

NBCUniversal Enterprise, Inc.

       

5.25%, 3/19/21 (a)(c)

     128           133,120   

Omnicom Group, Inc.

       

3.625%, 5/01/22

     87           88,280   

TCI Communications, Inc.

       

7.875%, 2/15/26

     115           158,337   

Time Warner Cable, Inc.

       

4.125%, 2/15/21

     200           211,663   

Time Warner, Inc.

       

7.625%, 4/15/31

     69           93,134   

Viacom, Inc.

       

3.875%, 4/01/24

     68           67,718   

5.625%, 9/15/19

     60           68,273   
       

 

 

 
          1,480,206   
       

 

 

 

Communications - Telecommunications - 1.4%

       

American Tower Corp.

       

5.05%, 9/01/20

     260           281,951   

Deutsche Telekom International Finance BV

       

4.875%, 3/06/42 (a)

     320           330,873   

Rogers Communications, Inc.

       

4.00%, 6/06/22

   CAD      27           25,023   

Telefonica Emisiones SAU

       

5.462%, 2/16/21

   U.S.$ 120           133,639   

Verizon Communications, Inc.

       

3.85%, 11/01/42

     89           77,719   

6.55%, 9/15/43

     165           206,150   
       

 

 

 
          1,055,355   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Cyclical - Automotive - 0.7%

       

Ford Motor Credit Co. LLC

       

5.875%, 8/02/21

     455           523,170   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Non-Cyclical - 1.0%

       

Actavis Funding SCS

       

3.85%, 6/15/24 (a)

     54           52,346   

Grupo Bimbo SAB de CV

       

3.875%, 6/27/24 (a)

     201           198,377   

Kroger Co. (The)

       

3.40%, 4/15/22

     194           194,529   

Reynolds American, Inc.

       

3.25%, 11/01/22

     127           122,541   


Company

   Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc.

       

4.15%, 2/01/24

     78           80,758   

Tyson Foods, Inc.

       

2.65%, 8/15/19

     39           39,073   

3.95%, 8/15/24

     123           123,215   
       

 

 

 
          810,839   
       

 

 

 

Energy - 3.5%

       

Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc.

       

4.875%, 11/01/43

     68           63,032   

Encana Corp.

       

3.90%, 11/15/21

     45           46,445   

Energy Transfer Partners LP

       

7.50%, 7/01/38

     244           310,759   

Enterprise Products Operating LLC

       

5.20%, 9/01/20

     55           61,759   

Hess Corp.

       

7.875%, 10/01/29

     19           25,793   

Kinder Morgan Energy Partners LP

       

3.95%, 9/01/22

     321           318,669   

4.15%, 3/01/22

     89           89,916   

Nabors Industries, Inc.

       

5.10%, 9/15/23

     170           184,178   

Noble Energy, Inc.

       

8.25%, 3/01/19

     238           294,274   

Noble Holding International Ltd.

       

3.95%, 3/15/22

     125           121,746   

4.90%, 8/01/20

     32           33,861   

Sunoco Logistics Partners Operations LP

       

5.30%, 4/01/44

     145           147,944   

TransCanada PipeLines Ltd.

       

6.35%, 5/15/67

     235           242,637   

Transocean, Inc.

       

6.375%, 12/15/21

     1           1,064   

6.50%, 11/15/20

     185           196,576   

Valero Energy Corp.

       

6.125%, 2/01/20

     177           205,264   

Weatherford International Ltd./Bermuda

       

9.625%, 3/01/19

     190           243,925   

Williams Partners LP

       

5.25%, 3/15/20

     173           192,105   
       

 

 

 
          2,779,947   
       

 

 

 

Technology - 1.0%

       

Hewlett-Packard Co.

       

4.65%, 12/09/21

     107           115,898   

Motorola Solutions, Inc.

       

3.50%, 3/01/23

     165           159,522   

7.50%, 5/15/25

     25           31,484   

Seagate HDD Cayman

       

4.75%, 1/01/25 (a)

     75           74,625   

Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson

       

4.125%, 5/15/22

     43           44,876   

Tencent Holdings Ltd.

       

3.375%, 5/02/19 (a)

     205           207,216   


Company

   Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Total System Services, Inc.

       

2.375%, 6/01/18

     74           73,480   

3.75%, 6/01/23

     69           67,583   
       

 

 

 
          774,684   
       

 

 

 

Transportation - Airlines - 0.1%

       

Southwest Airlines Co.

       

5.75%, 12/15/16

     75           81,974   
       

 

 

 

Transportation - Services - 0.3%

       

Ryder System, Inc.

       

5.85%, 11/01/16

     116           126,785   

7.20%, 9/01/15

     108           114,453   
       

 

 

 
          241,238   
       

 

 

 
          9,515,444   
       

 

 

 

Financial Institutions - 6.5%

       

Banking - 4.1%

       

Bank of America Corp.

       

4.20%, 8/26/24

     103           102,109   

BPCE SA

       

5.70%, 10/22/23 (a)

     225           239,335   

Compass Bank

       

5.50%, 4/01/20

     250           271,916   

Credit Suisse AG

       

6.50%, 8/08/23 (a)

     240           261,033   

Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (The)

       

3.85%, 7/08/24

     295           293,259   

Series D

       

6.00%, 6/15/20

     395           453,788   

Macquarie Group Ltd.

       

4.875%, 8/10/17 (a)

     232           250,165   

Morgan Stanley

       

5.625%, 9/23/19

     143           160,972   

Murray Street Investment Trust I

       

4.647%, 3/09/17

     27           28,900   

Nationwide Building Society

       

6.25%, 2/25/20 (a)

     230           268,489   

Rabobank Capital Funding Trust III

       

5.254%, 10/21/16 (a)(c)

     90           94,500   

Standard Chartered PLC

       

4.00%, 7/12/22 (a)

     265           272,046   

Turkiye Garanti Bankasi AS

       

4.75%, 10/17/19 (a)

     204           205,271   

UBS AG/Stamford CT

       

7.625%, 8/17/22

     250           290,439   
       

 

 

 
          3,192,222   
       

 

 

 

Finance - 0.2%

       

Aviation Capital Group Corp.

       

7.125%, 10/15/20 (a)

     155           179,640   
       

 

 

 

Insurance - 1.4%

       

American International Group, Inc.

       

4.875%, 6/01/22

     75           82,494   

6.40%, 12/15/20

     215           255,789   


Company

   Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Hartford Financial Services Group, Inc. (The)

       

5.50%, 3/30/20

     200           225,813   

Lincoln National Corp.

       

8.75%, 7/01/19

     113           143,946   

MetLife, Inc.

       

10.75%, 8/01/39

     85           137,275   

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co.

       

9.375%, 8/15/39 (a)

     55           84,675   

Prudential Financial, Inc.

       

5.625%, 6/15/43

     185           192,807   
       

 

 

 
          1,122,799   
       

 

 

 

REITS - 0.8%

       

HCP, Inc.

       

5.375%, 2/01/21

     179           199,744   

Health Care REIT, Inc.

       

5.25%, 1/15/22

     183           202,458   

Trust F/1401

       

5.25%, 12/15/24 (a)

     200           208,000   
       

 

 

 
          610,202   
       

 

 

 
          5,104,863   
       

 

 

 

Non Corporate Sectors - 0.9%

       

ABS - Other - 0.3%

       

Rio Oil Finance Trust Series 2014-1

       

6.25%, 7/06/24 (a)

     250           257,369   
       

 

 

 

Agencies - Not Government Guaranteed - 0.6%

       

CNOOC Finance 2013 Ltd.

       

3.00%, 5/09/23

     260           241,597   

OCP SA

       

5.625%, 4/25/24 (a)

     205           213,241   
       

 

 

 
          454,838   
       

 

 

 
          712,207   
       

 

 

 

Utility - 0.8%

       

Electric - 0.4%

       

Berkshire Hathaway Energy Co.

       

6.125%, 4/01/36

     170           210,382   

CMS Energy Corp.

       

5.05%, 3/15/22

     37           41,344   

Constellation Energy Group, Inc.

       

5.15%, 12/01/20

     64           70,858   
       

 

 

 
          322,584   
       

 

 

 

Natural Gas - 0.4%

       

Talent Yield Investments Ltd.

       

4.50%, 4/25/22 (a)

     305           314,730   
       

 

 

 
          637,314   
       

 

 

 

Total Corporates - Investment Grades
(cost $15,017,995)

          15,969,828   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

MORTGAGE PASS-THROUGHS - 19.4%

       

Agency Fixed Rate 30-Year - 17.7%

       

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. Gold

       

Series 2005

       

5.50%, 1/01/35

     192           215,461   

Series 2007

       

5.50%, 7/01/35

     54           60,248   

Federal National Mortgage Association

       

3.00%, 6/01/43-7/01/43

     1,430           1,411,999   

3.50%, 11/01/44, TBA

     3,731           3,802,414   

4.00%, 11/25/44, TBA

     4,052           4,257,293   

4.50%, 4/01/44

     915           991,033   

4.50%, 10/25/44, TBA

     1,500           1,618,359   

Series 2003

       

5.50%, 4/01/33-7/01/33

     177           199,297   

Series 2004

       

5.50%, 4/01/34-11/01/34

     160           179,709   

Series 2005

       

5.50%, 2/01/35

     196           220,036   

Series 2007

       

4.50%, 9/01/35-8/01/37

     50           53,564   

Series 2014

       

4.50%, 2/01/44

     154           167,179   

Government National Mortgage Association

       

3.50%, 11/01/44, TBA

     771           794,732   

Series 1994

       

9.00%, 9/15/24

     1           1,480   
       

 

 

 
          13,972,804   
       

 

 

 

Agency Fixed Rate 15-Year - 1.7%

       

Federal National Mortgage Association

       

3.00%, 10/01/29, TBA

     1,267           1,305,010   
       

 

 

 

Total Mortgage Pass-Throughs
(cost $15,133,905)

          15,277,814   
       

 

 

 

ASSET-BACKED SECURITIES - 14.1%

       

Autos - Fixed Rate - 8.4%

       

Ally Master Owner Trust

       

Series 2013-1, Class A2

       

1.00%, 2/15/18

     260           260,624   

Series 2014-1, Class A2

       

1.29%, 1/15/19

     252           251,716   

AmeriCredit Automobile Receivables Trust

       

Series 2011-3, Class D

       

4.04%, 7/10/17

     200           205,828   

Series 2012-3, Class A3

       

0.96%, 1/09/17

     174           174,638   

Series 2013-1, Class A2

       

0.49%, 6/08/16

     8           7,832   

Series 2013-3, Class A3

       

0.92%, 4/09/18

     335           335,143   

Series 2013-4, Class A3

       

0.96%, 4/09/18

     130           130,244   

Series 2013-5, Class A2A

       

0.65%, 3/08/17

     56           56,034   


Company

   Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

ARI Fleet Lease Trust

       

Series 2014-A, Class A2

       

0.81%, 11/15/22 (a)

     93           93,148   

Avis Budget Rental Car Funding AESOP LLC

       

Series 2013-2A, Class A

       

2.97%, 2/20/20 (a)

     288           293,969   

Series 2014-1A, Class A

       

2.46%, 7/20/20 (a)

     149           148,380   

California Republic Auto Receivables Trust

       

Series 2014-2, Class A4

       

1.57%, 12/16/19

     122           121,251   

Capital Auto Receivables Asset Trust

       

Series 2013-1, Class A2

       

0.62%, 7/20/16

     130           129,549   

Series 2013-3, Class A2

       

1.04%, 11/21/16

     275           275,968   

Series 2014-1, Class B

       

2.22%, 1/22/19

     60           60,358   

CarMax Auto Owner Trust

       

Series 2012-1, Class A3

       

0.89%, 9/15/16

     58           57,895   

Chrysler Capital Auto Receivables Trust

       

Series 2014-BA, Class A2

       

0.69%, 9/15/17 (a)

     279           278,991   

CPS Auto Receivables Trust

       

Series 2013-B, Class A

       

1.82%, 9/15/20 (a)

     181           180,845   

Series 2014-B, Class A

       

1.11%, 11/15/18 (a)

     92           92,042   

Enterprise Fleet Financing LLC

       

Series 2014-2, Class A2

       

1.05%, 3/20/20 (a)

     200           199,658   

Exeter Automobile Receivables Trust

       

Series 2012-2A, Class A

       

1.30%, 6/15/17 (a)

     46           46,000   

Series 2013-1A, Class A

       

1.29%, 10/16/17 (a)

     50           49,927   

Series 2014-1A, Class A

       

1.29%, 5/15/18 (a)

     74           74,041   

Series 2014-2A, Class A

       

1.06%, 8/15/18 (a)

     69           68,570   

Flagship Credit Auto Trust

       

Series 2013-1, Class A

       

1.32%, 4/16/18 (a)

     52           52,166   

Ford Auto Securitization Trust

       

Series 2013-R1A, Class A2

       

1.676%, 9/15/16 (a)

   CAD     125           111,903   

Series 2013-R4A, Class A1

       

1.487%, 8/15/15 (a)

     11           10,101   

Series 2014-R2A, Class A1

       

1.353%, 3/15/16 (a)

     66           58,896   

Ford Credit Auto Lease Trust

       

Series 2014-B, Class A3

       

0.89%, 9/15/17

   U.S.$ 144           143,850   


Company

   Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Ford Credit Auto Owner Trust

       

Series 2012-D, Class B

       

1.01%, 5/15/18

     100           99,323   

Ford Credit Floorplan Master Owner Trust

       

Series 2013-1, Class A1

       

0.85%, 1/15/18

     136           136,248   

Series 2014-1, Class A1

       

1.20%, 2/15/19

     201           200,470   

Harley-Davidson Motorcycle Trust

       

Series 2012-1, Class A3

       

0.68%, 4/15/17

     91           90,946   

Hertz Vehicle Financing LLC

       

Series 2013-1A, Class A1

       

1.12%, 8/25/17 (a)

     175           174,763   

Series 2013-1A, Class A2

       

1.83%, 8/25/19 (a)

     485           480,567   

Mercedes-Benz Auto Lease Trust

       

Series 2013-A, Class A3

       

0.59%, 2/15/16

     173           173,085   

Series 2014-A, Class A2A

       

0.48%, 6/15/16

     230           229,968   

Mercedes-Benz Master Owner Trust

       

Series 2012-AA, Class A

       

0.79%, 11/15/17 (a)

     373           373,518   

Santander Drive Auto Receivables Trust

       

Series 2013-4, Class A3

       

1.11%, 12/15/17

     270           270,743   

Series 2013-5, Class A2A

       

0.64%, 4/17/17

     56           56,153   

Series 2014-2, Class A3

       

0.80%, 4/16/18

     205           204,770   

Volkswagen Auto Loan Enhanced Trust

       

Series 2014-1, Class A3

       

0.91%, 10/22/18

     152           151,592   
       

 

 

 
          6,611,713   
       

 

 

 

Credit Cards - Fixed Rate - 1.9%

       

American Express Credit Account Master Trust

       

Series 2012-5, Class A

       

0.59%, 5/15/18

     325           325,172   

Series 2014-2, Class A

       

1.26%, 1/15/20

     161           160,428   

Barclays Dryrock Issuance Trust

       

Series 2014-3, Class A

       

2.41%, 7/15/22

     320           319,922   

Discover Card Master Trust

       

Series 2012-A3, Class A3

       

0.86%, 11/15/17

     300           300,800   

World Financial Network Credit Card Master Trust

       

Series 2012-B, Class A

       

1.76%, 5/17/21

     190           190,748   

Series 2014-B, Class A

       

0.61%, 7/15/19

     163           162,970   
       

 

 

 
          1,460,040   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Other ABS - Fixed Rate - 1.2%

       

CIT Equipment Collateral

       

Series 2013-VT1, Class A3

       

1.13%, 7/20/20 (a)

     213           213,830   

CNH Capital Canada Receivables Trust

       

Series 2014-1A, Class A1

       

1.388%, 3/15/17 (a)

   CAD     141           125,847   

CNH Equipment Trust

       

Series 2012-A, Class A3

       

0.94%, 5/15/17

   U.S.$ 68           67,785   

Series 2013-C, Class A2

       

0.63%, 1/17/17

     78           78,246   

Series 2013-D, Class A2

       

0.49%, 3/15/17

     165           165,214   

Series 2014-B, Class A4

       

1.61%, 5/17/21

     101           100,217   

GE Equipment Small Ticket LLC

       

Series 2014-1A, Class A2

       

0.59%, 8/24/16 (a)

     193           192,558   
       

 

 

 
          943,697   
       

 

 

 

Credit Cards - Floating Rate - 1.2%

       

Barclays Dryrock Issuance Trust

       

Series 2014-2, Class A

       

0.494%, 3/16/20 (b)

     205           205,007   

Cabela’s Master Credit Card Trust

       

Series 2014-1, Class A

       

0.504%, 3/16/20 (b)

     205           204,873   

Gracechurch Card Funding PLC

       

Series 2012-1A, Class A1

       

0.854%, 2/15/17 (a)(b)

     320           320,608   

World Financial Network Credit Card Master Trust

       

Series 2014-A, Class A

       

0.534%, 12/15/19 (b)

     185           185,339   
       

 

 

 
          915,827   
       

 

 

 

Autos - Floating Rate - 0.8%

       

GE Dealer Floorplan Master Note Trust

       

Series 2012-3, Class A

       

0.644%, 6/20/17 (b)

     485           485,442   

Hertz Fleet Lease Funding LP

       

Series 2013-3, Class A

       

0.704%, 12/10/27 (a)(b)

     167           167,326   
       

 

 

 
          652,768   
       

 

 

 

Other ABS - Floating Rate - 0.3%

       

GE Dealer Floorplan Master Note Trust

       

Series 2014-1, Class A

       

0.534%, 7/20/19 (b)

     240           240,097   
       

 

 

 

Home Equity Loans - Floating Rate - 0.2%

       

Asset Backed Funding Certificates

       

Series 2003-WF1, Class A2

       

1.28%, 12/25/32 (b)

     53           50,805   


Company

   Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

GSAA Trust

       

Series 2006-5, Class 2A3

       

0.425%, 3/25/36 (b)

     196           136,554   
       

 

 

 
          187,359   
       

 

 

 

Home Equity Loans - Fixed Rate - 0.1%

       

Credit-Based Asset Servicing and Securitization LLC

       

Series 2003-CB1, Class AF

       

3.95%, 1/25/33

     94           93,461   
       

 

 

 

Total Asset-Backed Securities
(cost $11,123,259)

          11,104,962   
       

 

 

 

COMMERCIAL MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES - 8.1%

       

Non-Agency Fixed Rate CMBS - 6.9%

       

Banc of America Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2007-4, Class A1A

       

5.774%, 2/10/51

     341           374,658   

Series 2007-5, Class AM

       

5.772%, 2/10/51

     78           83,011   

BHMS Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2014-ATLS, Class AFX

       

3.601%, 7/05/33 (a)

     200           198,848   

CGRBS Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2013-VN05, Class A

       

3.369%, 3/13/35 (a)

     260           260,684   

Citigroup Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2006-C4, Class A1A

       

5.974%, 3/15/49

     130           137,156   

COBALT CMBS Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2007-C3, Class A4

       

5.97%, 5/15/46

     172           188,283   

Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates

       

Series 2007-GG9, Class A4

       

5.444%, 3/10/39

     506           545,533   

Series 2013-SFS, Class A1

       

1.873%, 4/12/35 (a)

     115           112,124   

Extended Stay America Trust

       

Series 2013-ESH7, Class A17

       

2.295%, 12/05/31 (a)

     180           175,433   

GS Mortgage Securities Corp. II

       

Series 2013-KING, Class A

       

2.706%, 12/10/27 (a)

     269           271,242   

GS Mortgage Securities Trust

       

Series 2013-G1, Class A2

       

3.557%, 4/10/31 (a)

     136           133,458   

JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust

       

Series 2010-C2, Class A1

       

2.749%, 11/15/43 (a)

     179           182,485   

Merrill Lynch Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2006-C2, Class A1A

       

5.739%, 8/12/43

     158           168,949   


Company

   Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Merrill Lynch/Countrywide Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2006-4, Class A1A

       

5.166%, 12/12/49

     589           628,888   

Series 2007-9, Class A4

       

5.70%, 9/12/49

     1,105           1,211,131   

Motel 6 Trust

       

Series 2012-MTL6, Class A2

       

1.948%, 10/05/25 (a)

     280           279,856   

UBS-Barclays Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2012-C3, Class A4

       

3.091%, 8/10/49

     60           59,035   

Series 2012-C4, Class A5

       

2.85%, 12/10/45

     112           108,903   

WF-RBS Commercial Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2013-C14, Class A5

       

3.337%, 6/15/46

     233           233,844   

Series 2014-C20, Class A2

       

3.036%, 5/15/47

     125           128,782   
       

 

 

 
          5,482,303   
       

 

 

 

Non-Agency Floating Rate CMBS - 1.2%

       

Commercial Mortgage Pass Through Certificates

       

Series 2014-KYO, Class A

       

1.054%, 6/11/27 (a)(b)

     102           101,658   

Commercial Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates

       

Series 2014-SAVA, Class A

       

1.304%, 6/15/34 (a)(b)

     100           100,031   

Extended Stay America Trust

       

Series 2013-ESFL, Class A2FL

       

0.856%, 12/05/31 (a)(b)

     140           139,971   

JP Morgan Chase Commercial Mortgage Securities Trust

       

Series 2014-INN, Class A

       

1.074%, 6/15/29 (a)(b)

     201           200,874   

PFP III Ltd.

       

Series 2014-1, Class A

       

1.324%, 6/14/31 (a)(b)

     285           285,313   

Resource Capital Corp., Ltd.

       

Series 2014-CRE2, Class A

       

1.204%, 4/15/32 (a)(b)

     100           100,000   
       

 

 

 
          927,847   
       

 

 

 

Total Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities
(cost $6,391,275)

          6,410,150   
       

 

 

 

CORPORATES - NON-INVESTMENT GRADES - 3.5%

       

Financial Institutions - 1.8%

       

Banking - 1.7%

       

ABN AMRO Bank NV

       

4.31%, 3/10/16 (c)

   EUR 60           76,920   


Company

   Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Bank of Ireland

       

2.063%, 9/22/15 (b)

   CAD     110           94,535   

Barclays Bank PLC

       

6.86%, 6/15/32 (a)(c)

   U.S.$ 29           32,154   

7.75%, 4/10/23

     200           216,500   

BNP Paribas SA

       

5.186%, 6/29/15 (a)(c)

     62           62,620   

Danske Bank A/S

       

5.684%, 2/15/17 (c)

   GBP     98           164,830   

HBOS Capital Funding LP

       

4.939%, 5/23/16 (c)

   EUR     82           103,376   

Intesa Sanpaolo SpA

       

5.017%, 6/26/24 (a)

   U.S.$ 202           196,816   

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC (The)

       

9.50%, 3/16/22 (a)

     39           44,460   

Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB

       

5.471%, 3/23/15 (a)(c)

     100           101,000   

Societe Generale SA

       

4.196%, 1/26/15 (c)

   EUR     48           60,716   

Unicredit Luxembourg Finance SA

       

6.00%, 10/31/17 (a)

   U.S.$ 190           203,706   
       

 

 

 
          1,357,633   
       

 

 

 

Finance - 0.1%

       

International Lease Finance Corp.

       

5.875%, 4/01/19

     55           58,575   
       

 

 

 
          1,416,208   
       

 

 

 

Industrial - 1.5%

       

Basic - 0.1%

       

NOVA Chemicals Corp.

       

5.25%, 8/01/23 (a)

     74           76,960   

Novelis, Inc./GA

       

8.375%, 12/15/17

     18           18,720   
       

 

 

 
          95,680   
       

 

 

 

Communications - Media - 0.1%

       

Univision Communications, Inc.

       

6.875%, 5/15/19 (a)

     61           63,592   
       

 

 

 

Communications - Telecommunications - 0.1%

       

Sprint Corp.

       

7.875%, 9/15/23 (a)

     100           106,000   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Cyclical - Automotive - 0.2%

       

General Motors Co.

       

3.50%, 10/02/18

     80           81,300   

Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. (The)

       

8.25%, 8/15/20

     36           38,520   
       

 

 

 
          119,820   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

Consumer Cyclical - Other – 0.1%

       

KB Home

       

4.75%, 5/15/19

     63           61,267   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Non-Cyclical - 0.0%

       

CHS/Community Health Systems, Inc.

       

5.125%, 8/15/18

     33           33,908   
       

 

 

 

Energy - 0.6%

       

Access Midstream Partners LP/ACMP Finance Corp.

       

4.875%, 3/15/24

     78           79,755   

California Resources Corp.

       

5.50%, 9/15/21 (a)

     53           53,795   

Cimarex Energy Co.

       

4.375%, 6/01/24

     60           60,450   

ONEOK, Inc.

       

4.25%, 2/01/22

     203           200,128   

Paragon Offshore PLC

       

7.25%, 8/15/24 (a)

     81           68,445   

SM Energy Co.

       

6.50%, 1/01/23

     9           9,360   
       

 

 

 
          471,933   
       

 

 

 

Services - 0.1%

       

Sabre GLBL, Inc.

       

8.50%, 5/15/19 (a)

     70           74,900   
       

 

 

 

Technology - 0.2%

       

Numericable Group SA

       

5.375%, 5/15/22 (a)

   EUR     120           156,616   
       

 

 

 

Transportation - Services - 0.0%

       

Hertz Corp. (The)

       

6.75%, 4/15/19

   U.S.$ 10           10,313   
       

 

 

 
          1,194,029   
       

 

 

 

Utility - 0.2%

       

Electric - 0.2%

       

AES Corp./VA

       

7.375%, 7/01/21

     70           78,400   

NRG Energy, Inc.

       

6.25%, 5/01/24 (a)

     54           54,135   
       

 

 

 
          132,535   
       

 

 

 

Total Corporates - Non-Investment Grades
(cost $2,712,723)

          2,742,772   
       

 

 

 

INFLATION-LINKED SECURITIES - 3.1%

       

United States - 3.1%

       

U.S. Treasury Inflation Index
0.125%, 4/15/19 (TIPS)
(cost $2,517,175)

     2,461           2,466,592   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

COLLATERALIZED MORTGAGE OBLIGATIONS - 3.0%

       

Non-Agency Fixed Rate - 1.4%

       

Alternative Loan Trust

       

Series 2006-24CB, Class A16

       

5.75%, 6/25/36

     131           116,328   

Series 2006-28CB, Class A14

       

6.25%, 10/25/36

     88           76,942   

Series 2006-J1, Class 1A13

       

5.50%, 2/25/36

     84           77,197   

CHL Mortgage Pass-Through Trust

       

Series 2006-10, Class 1A8

       

6.00%, 5/25/36

     79           73,769   

Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust, Inc.

       

Series 2005-2, Class 1A4

       

2.612%, 5/25/35

     110           108,542   

Countrywide Alternative Loan Trust

       

Series 2005-20CB, Class 3A6

       

5.50%, 7/25/35

     37           35,028   

Countrywide Home Loan Mortgage Pass-Through Trust

  

    

Series 2006-13, Class 1A18

       

6.25%, 9/25/36

     117           108,575   

Series 2006-13, Class 1A19

       

6.25%, 9/25/36

     42           39,150   

Series 2007-HYB2, Class 3A1

       

2.633%, 2/25/47

     153           128,413   

First Horizon Alternative Mortgage Securities Trust

       

Series 2006-FA3, Class A9

       

6.00%, 7/25/36

     130           110,344   

JP Morgan Alternative Loan Trust

       

Series 2006-A3, Class 2A1

       

2.715%, 7/25/36

     237           185,191   

Wells Fargo Mortgage Backed Securities Trust

       

Series 2007-8, Class 2A5

       

5.75%, 7/25/37

     54           53,095   
       

 

 

 
          1,112,574   
       

 

 

 

Non-Agency Floating Rate - 0.8%

       

Deutsche Alt-A Securities Mortgage Loan Trust

       

Series 2006-AR4, Class A2

       

0.345%, 12/25/36 (b)

     212           130,713   

HomeBanc Mortgage Trust

       

Series 2005-1, Class A1

       

0.405%, 3/25/35 (b)

     107           96,591   

IndyMac Index Mortgage Loan Trust

       

Series 2006-AR15, Class A1

       

0.275%, 7/25/36(b)

     157           121,666   

Series 2006-AR27, Class 2A2

       

0.355%, 10/25/36(b)

     166           143,198   

Washington Mutual Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates

       

Series 2007-OA1, Class A1A

       

0.817%, 2/25/47 (b)

     208           171,290   
       

 

 

 
          663,458   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Principal
Amount

(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

GSE Risk Share Floating Rate - 0.7%

       

Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp.,

       

Structured Agency Credit Risk Debt Notes

       

Series 2014-DN3, Class M2

       

2.557%, 8/25/24 (b)

     335           335,673   

Federal National Mortgage Association

       

Connecticut Avenue Securities

       

Series 2014-C01, Class M2

       

4.555%, 1/25/24 (b)

     101           107,755   

Series 2014-C03, Class 1M1

       

1.355%, 7/25/24 (b)

     77           76,140   
       

 

 

 
          519,568   
       

 

 

 

Agency Fixed Rate - 0.1%

       

Fannie Mae Grantor Trust

       

Series 2004-T5, Class AB4

       

0.718%, 5/28/35

     50           45,485   
       

 

 

 

Total Collateralized Mortgage Obligations
(cost $2,439,780)

          2,341,085   
       

 

 

 

AGENCIES - 2.6%

       

Agency Debentures - 2.6%

       

Residual Funding Corp. Principal Strip
Zero Coupon, 7/15/20
(cost $1,832,996)

     2,292           2,009,209   
       

 

 

 

QUASI-SOVEREIGNS - 1.5%

       

Quasi-Sovereign Bonds - 1.5%

       

Chile - 0.3%

       

Empresa de Transporte de Pasajeros Metro SA

       

4.75%, 2/04/24 (a)

     210           217,761   
       

 

 

 

China - 0.3%

       

Sinopec Group Overseas Development 2013 Ltd.

       

4.375%, 10/17/23 (a)

     225           230,732   
       

 

 

 

Malaysia - 0.6%

       

Petronas Capital Ltd.

       

5.25%, 8/12/19 (a)

     420           469,603   
       

 

 

 

Mexico - 0.3%

       

Petroleos Mexicanos

       

3.50%, 7/18/18-1/30/23

     272           269,029   
       

 

 

 

Total Quasi-Sovereigns
(cost $1,114,256)

          1,187,125   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

PREFERRED STOCKS - 0.4%

       

Financial Institutions - 0.4%

       

Insurance - 0.2%

       

Allstate Corp. (The)

       

5.10%

     7,925           194,083   
       

 

 

 

REITS - 0.2%

       

Sovereign Real Estate Investment Trust

       

12.00% (a)

     93           125,085   
       

 

 

 

Total Preferred Stocks
(cost $299,414)

          319,168   
       

 

 

 
     Principal
Amount

(000)
          

LOCAL GOVERNMENTS - MUNICIPAL BONDS - 0.4%

       

United States - 0.4%

       

California GO
Series 2010
7.625%, 3/01/40
(cost $203,235)

   U.S.$ 200           291,628   
       

 

 

 

GOVERNMENTS - SOVEREIGN BONDS - 0.3%

       

Turkey - 0.3%

       

Turkey Government International Bond

       

4.875%, 4/16/43

(cost $257,035)

     260           234,325   
       

 

 

 

GOVERNMENTS - SOVEREIGN AGENCIES - 0.2%

       

Colombia - 0.1%

       

Ecopetrol SA

       

5.875%, 5/28/45

     57           58,140   
       

 

 

 

Germany - 0.1%

       

Landwirtschaftliche Rentenbank

       

5.125%, 2/01/17

     70           76,763   
       

 

 

 

Total Governments - Sovereign Agencies
(cost $127,324)

          134,903   
       

 

 

 

EMERGING MARKETS - CORPORATE BONDS - 0.1%

       

Industrial - 0.1%

       

Consumer Non-Cyclical - 0.1%

       

Marfrig Overseas Ltd.

       

9.50%, 5/04/20 (a)

(cost $99,786)

     100           105,500   
       

 

 

 
     Shares           

WARRANTS - 0.0%

       

Talon Equity Co. NV, expiring 11/24/15 (d)(e)(f)
(cost $0)

     47           0   
       

 

 

 

 


     Principal
Amount
(000)
     U.S. $ Value  

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 14.9%

     

Time Deposit - 10.7%

     

State Street Time Deposit
0.01%, 10/01/14
(cost $8,401,288)

   U.S.$ 8,401         8,401,288   
     

 

 

 

Governments-Treasuries - 3.2%

     

Japan - 3.2%

     

Japan Treasury Bills
Series 468 Zero Coupon, 10/27/14
(cost $2,721,953)

   JPY     280,000         2,552,942   
     

 

 

 

Certificates of Deposit - 1.0%

     

Svenska Handelsbanken/New York
0.225%, 3/23/15
(cost $788,019)

     788         788,019   
     

 

 

 

Total Short-Term Investments
(cost $11,911,260)

        11,742,249   
     

 

 

 

Total Investments - 112.9%
(cost $87,161,984) (g)

        88,870,372   

Other assets less liabilities - (12.9)% (h)

        (10,120,593
     

 

 

 

Net Assets - 100.0%

      $ 78,749,779   
     

 

 

 

FUTURES

 

Type

   Number
of
Contracts
     Expiration
Month
     Original
Value
     Value at
September 30,
2014
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Purchased Contracts

              

U.S. T-Note 10 Yr (CBT) Futures

     2         December 2014       $     250,518       $ 249,281       $ (1,237

Sold Contracts

              

U.S. T-Note 2 Yr (CBT) Futures

     4         December 2014         875,369         875,375         (6

U.S. T-Note 5 Yr (CBT) Futures

     8         December 2014         947,864         946,063         1,801   
              

 

 

 
            $ 558   
              

 

 

 

FORWARD CURRENCY EXCHANGE CONTRACTS

 

Counterparty

   Contracts to
Deliver
(000)
     In Exchange
For
(000)
     Settlement
Date
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

BNP Paribas SA

     JPY         81,383         USD         776         10/17/14       $ 34,085   

BNP Paribas SA

     USD         355         JPY         38,814         10/17/14         (1,239

BNP Paribas SA

     AUD         680         USD         620         10/24/14         25,644   

BNP Paribas SA

     USD         2,615         JPY         280,000         10/27/14         (61,441

BNP Paribas SA

     JPY         280,000         USD         2,618         1/15/15         61,801   

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

     CAD         1,204         USD         1,097         10/10/14         22,305   

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

     JPY         280,000         USD         2,733         10/27/14         179,748   

HSBC Bank USA

     NZD         482         USD         391         10/31/14         16,498   


Counterparty

   Contracts to
Deliver
(000)
     In Exchange
For
(000)
     Settlement
Date
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA

     GBP         90         USD         149         10/14/14       $ 3,622   

JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA

     EUR         915         USD         1,207         10/16/14         51,287   

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

     EUR         460         USD         595         10/16/14         13,879   

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

     USD         783         EUR         593         10/16/14         (33,449

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

     NZD         1,221         USD         981         10/31/14         30,051   

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD         65         CAD         71         10/10/14         (1,594
                 

 

 

 
                  $ 341,197   
                 

 

 

 

CENTRALLY CLEARED CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS

 

Clearing Broker/(Exchange) & Referenced Obligation

   Fixed
Rate

(Pay)
Receive
    Implied
Credit
Spread  at

September 30,
2014
    Notional
Amount

(000)
     Market
Value
    Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Buy Contracts

           

Morgan Stanley & Co., LLC/(INTRCONX):

  

        

CDX-NAHY Series 21, 5 Year Index, 12/20/18*

     (5.00 )%      3.17   $ 1,337       $ (93,145   $ (47,706

CDX-NAIG Series 22, 5 Year Index, 6/20/19*

     (1.00     0.64        2,530         (41,237     (7,465

Sale Contracts

           

Morgan Stanley & Co., LLC/(INTRCONX):

  

        

CDX-NAHY Series 21, 5 Year Index, 12/20/18*

     5.00        3.17        1,337         93,145        (4,041

CDX-NAIG Series 22, 5 Year Index, 06/20/19*

     1.00        0.64        2,530         41,237        (5,363
         

 

 

   

 

 

 
          $ 0      $ (64,575
         

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

* Termination date

CENTRALLY CLEARED INTEREST RATE SWAPS

 

                          Rate Type        

Clearing Broker/(Exchange)

   Notional
Amount
(000)
     Termination
Date
     Payments
made by
the
Fund
    Payments
received 
by the
Fund
    Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Morgan Stanley & Co., LLC/(CME Group)

        380         6/25/21         2.243     3 Month LIBOR      $ (1,521

Morgan Stanley & Co., LLC/(CME Group)

        530         1/14/24         2.980     3 Month LIBOR        (20,810

Morgan Stanley & Co., LLC/(CME Group)

        460         2/14/24         2.889     3 Month LIBOR        (13,150

Morgan Stanley & Co., LLC/(CME Group)

        650         4/28/24         2.817     3 Month LIBOR        (19,101

Morgan Stanley & Co., LLC/(CME Group)

        450         5/29/24         3 Month LIBOR        2.628     4,240   

Morgan Stanley & Co., LLC/(CME Group)

     NZD         730         9/25/24         4.628     3 Month BKBM        (2,777
               

 

 

 
                $ (53,119
               

 

 

 


CREDIT DEFAULT SWAPS

 

Swap Counterparty & Referenced Obligation

   Fixed Rate
(Pay)
Receive
    Implied Credit
Spread at
September 30,
2014
    Notional
Amount
(000)
     Market
Value
     Upfront
Premiums
Paid
(Received)
    Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Sale Contracts

              

Credit Suisse International:

              

Anadarko Petroleum Corp.,

5.95%, 9/15/16, 9/20/17*

     1.00     0.41   $ 270       $ 4,685       $ (5,646   $ 10,331   

Kohl’s Corp.,

6.25%, 12/15/17, 6/20/19*

     1.00        0.92        92         220         (1,172     1,392   

Kohl’s Corp.,

6.25%, 12/15/17, 6/20/19*

     1.00        0.92        54         129         (617     746   

Kohl’s Corp.,

6.25%, 12/15/17, 6/20/19*

     1.00        0.92        37         90         (477     567   

Kohl’s Corp.,

6.25%, 12/15/17, 6/20/19*

     1.00        0.92        37         89         (473     562   
         

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 
          $ 5,213       $ (8,385   $ 13,598   
         

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

* Termination date

INTEREST RATE SWAPS

 

                   Rate Type         

Swap Counterparty

   Notional
Amount
(000)
     Termination
Date
     Payments
made
by the
Fund
    Payments
received
by the
Fund
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA

   $ 1,390         1/30/17         1.059     3 Month LIBOR       $ (3,651

JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA

     1,520         2/07/22         2.043     3 Month LIBOR         29,803   
             

 

 

 
              $ 26,152   
             

 

 

 


(a) Security is exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities are considered liquid and may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At September 30, 2014, the aggregate market value of these securities amounted to $14,655,817 or 18.6% of net assets.
(b) Floating Rate Security. Stated interest rate was in effect at September 30, 2014.
(c) Securities are perpetual and, thus, do not have a predetermined maturity date. The date shown, if applicable, reflects the next call date.
(d) Non-income producing security.
(e) Fair valued by the Adviser.
(f) Illiquid security.
(g) As of September 30, 2014, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $2,403,095 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(694,707), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $1,708,388.
(h) An amount of U.S.$6,827 has been segregated to collateralize margin requirements for the open futures contracts at September 30, 2014.

Currency Abbreviations:

 

AUD    -    Australian Dollar
CAD    -    Canadian Dollar
EUR    -    Euro
GBP    -    Great British Pound
JPY    -    Japanese Yen
NZD    -    New Zealand Dollar
USD    -    United States Dollar

Glossary:

 

ABS    -    Asset-Backed Securities
ARMs    -    Adjustable Rate Mortgages
BKBM    -    Bank Bill Benchmark (New Zealand)
CBT    -    Chicago Board of Trade
CDX-NAHY    -    North American High Yield Credit Default Swap Index
CDX-NAIG    -    North American Investment Grade Credit Default Swap Index
CMBS    -    Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities
CME    -    Chicago Mercantile Exchange
GSE    -    Government-Sponsored Enterprise
INTRCONX    -    Inter-Continental Exchange
LIBOR    -    London Interbank Offered Rates
REIT    -    Real Estate Investment Trust
TBA    -    To Be Announced
TIPS    -    Treasury Inflation Protected Security


AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

Intermediate Bond Portfolio

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized below.

 

   

Level 1—quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

   

Level 2—other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)

   

Level 3—significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

The fair value of debt instruments, such as bonds, and over-the-counter derivatives is generally based on market price quotations, recently executed market transactions (where observable) or industry recognized modeling techniques and are generally classified as Level 2. Pricing vendor inputs to Level 2 valuations may include quoted prices for similar investments in active markets, interest rate curves, coupon rates, currency rates, yield curves, option adjusted spreads, default rates, credit spreads and other unique security features in order to estimate the relevant cash flows which is then discounted to calculate fair values. If these inputs are unobservable and significant to the fair value, these investments will be classified as Level 3. In addition, non-agency rated investments are classified as Level 3.

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

Options and warrants are valued using market-based inputs to models, broker or dealer quotations, or alternative pricing sources with reasonable levels of price transparency, where such inputs and models are available. Alternatively the values may be obtained through unobservable management determined inputs and/or management’s proprietary models. Where models are used, the selection of a particular model to value an option or a warrant depends upon the contractual terms of, and specific risks inherent in, the option or warrant as well as the availability of pricing information in the market. Valuation models require a variety of inputs, including contractual terms, market prices, measures of volatility and correlations of such inputs. Exchange traded options will be classified as Level 2. For options or warrants that do not trade on exchange but trade in liquid markets, inputs can generally be verified and model selection does not involve significant management judgment. Options and warrants are classified within Level 2 on the fair value hierarchy when all of the significant inputs can be corroborated to market evidence. Otherwise such instruments are classified as Level 3.

Valuations of mortgage-backed or other asset backed securities, by pricing vendors, are based on both proprietary and industry recognized models and discounted cash flow techniques. Significant inputs to the valuation of these instruments are value of the collateral, the rates and timing of delinquencies, the rates and timing of prepayments, and default and loss expectations, which are driven in part by housing prices for residential mortgages. Significant inputs are determined based on relative value analyses, which incorporate comparisons to instruments with similar collateral and risk profiles, including relevant indices. Mortgage and asset backed securities for which management has collected current observable data through pricing services are generally categorized within Level 2. Those investments for which current observable data has not been provided are classified as Level 3.

Other fixed income investments, including non-U.S. government and corporate debt, are generally valued using quoted market prices, if available, which are typically impacted by current interest rates, maturity dates and any perceived credit risk of the issuer. Additionally, in the absence of quoted market prices, these inputs are used by pricing vendors to derive a valuation based upon industry or proprietary models which incorporate issuer specific data with relevant yield/spread comparisons with more widely quoted bonds with similar key characteristics. Those investments for which there are observable inputs are classified as Level 2. Where the inputs are not observable, the investments are classified as Level 3.


The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2014:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Assets:

        

Governments - Treasuries

   $ – 0  –    $ 16,533,062      $ – 0  –    $ 16,533,062   

Corporates - Investment Grades

     – 0  –      15,969,828        – 0  –      15,969,828   

Mortgage Pass-Throughs

     – 0  –      15,277,814        – 0  –      15,277,814   

Asset-Backed Securities

     – 0  –      9,640,348        1,464,614        11,104,962   

Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities

     – 0  –      6,327,139        83,011        6,410,150   

Corporates - Non-Investment Grades

     – 0  –      2,742,772        – 0  –      2,742,772   

Inflation-Linked Securities

     – 0  –      2,466,592        – 0  –      2,466,592   

Collateralized Mortgage Obligations

     – 0  –      45,485        2,295,600        2,341,085   

Agencies

     – 0  –      2,009,209        – 0  –      2,009,209   

Quasi-Sovereigns

     – 0  –      1,187,125        – 0  –      1,187,125   

Preferred Stocks

     194,083        125,085        – 0  –      319,168   

Local Governments - Municipal Bonds

     – 0  –      291,628        – 0  –      291,628   

Governments - Sovereign Bonds

     – 0  –      234,325        – 0  –      234,325   

Governments - Sovereign Agencies

     – 0  –      134,903        – 0  –      134,903   

Emerging Markets - Corporate Bonds

     – 0  –      105,500        – 0  –      105,500   

Warrants

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – ^      0   

Short-Term Investments:

      

Time Deposit

     – 0  –      8,401,288        – 0  –      8,401,288   

Governments – Treasuries

     – 0  –      2,552,942        – 0  –      2,552,942   

Certificates of Deposits

     – 0  –      788,019        – 0  –      788,019   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     194,083        84,833,064        3,843,225        88,870,372   

Other Financial Instruments* :

        

Assets:

      

Futures

     1,801        – 0  –      – 0  –      1,801   

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      438,920        – 0  –      438,920   

Centrally Cleared Interest Rate Swaps

       4,240          4,240   

Credit Default Swaps

       13,598          13,598   

Interest Rate Swaps

     – 0  –      29,803        – 0  –      29,803   

Liabilities:

      

Futures

     (1,243     – 0  –      – 0  –      (1,243

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      (97,723     – 0  –      (97,723

Centrally Cleared Credit Default Swaps

       (64,575       (64,575

Centrally Cleared Interest Rate Swaps

       (57,359       (57,359

Interest Rate Swaps

     – 0  –      (3,651     – 0  –      (3,651
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total**

   $ 194,641      $ 85,096,317      $ 3,843,225      $ 89,134,183   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

^ The Portfolio held securities with zero market value at period end.
* Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/depreciation on the instrument.
** There were no transfers between any levels during the reporting period.


The Portfolio recognizes all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.

The following is a reconciliation of investments in which significant unobservable inputs (Level 3) were used in determining fair value.

 

     Asset-Backed
Securities
    Commercial
Mortgage-Backed
Securities
    Corporates - Non-
Investment Grades
 

Balance as of 12/31/13

   $ 1,270,213      $ 186,676      $ – 0  – 

Accrued discounts/(premiums)

     2,193        (140     – 0  – 

Realized gain (loss)

     4,633        4,953        (3,506

Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation

     (3,189     (508     3,506   

Purchases

     688,601        – 0  –      – 0  – 

Sales

     (497,837     (107,970     – 0  – 

Transfers in to Level 3

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 

Transfers out of Level 3

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Balance as of 9/30/14

   $ 1,464,614      $ 83,011      $ – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation from investments held as of 9/30/14

   $ (1,628   $ 303      $ – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 
     Collateralized Mortgage
Obligations
    Common Stocks     Warrants^  

Balance as of 12/31/13

   $ 1,240,216      $ 3,690      $ – 0  – 

Accrued discounts/(premiums)

     6,624        – 0  –      – 0  – 

Realized gain (loss)

     (9,913     3,742        – 0  – 

Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation

     58,393        (3,686     – 0  – 

Purchases

     1,111,969        – 0  –      – 0  – 

Sales

     (111,689     (3,746     – 0  – 

Transfers in to Level 3

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 

Transfers out of Level 3

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Balance as of 9/30/14

   $ 2,295,600      $ – 0  –    $ – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation from investments held as of 9/30/14

   $ 58,393      $ – 0  –    $ – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 
     Total              

Balance as of 12/31/13

   $ 2,700,795       

Accrued discounts/(premiums)

     8,677       

Realized gain (loss)

     (91    

Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation

     54,516       

Purchases

     1,800,570       

Sales

     (721,242    

Transfers in to Level 3

     – 0  –     

Transfers out of Level 3

     – 0  –     
  

 

 

     

Balance as of 9/30/14

   $ 3,843,225       
  

 

 

     

Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation from investments held as of 9/30/14

   $ 57,068       
  

 

 

     

 

^ The Portfolio held a security with zero market value at period end.


The following presents information about significant unobservable inputs related to the Portfolio with material categories of Level 3 investments at September 30, 2014. Securities priced by third party vendors or at cost are excluded from the following table.

Quantitative Information about Level 3 Fair Value Measurements

 

     Fair Value at
9/30/14
     Valuation Technique    Unobservable Input    Range/
Weighted Average
 

Warrants

   $ 0       Qualitative Assessment       $ 0.00 / N/A   

The Adviser has established a Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) which is responsible for overseeing the pricing and valuation of all securities held in the Portfolio. The Committee operates under pricing and valuation policies and procedures established by the Adviser and approved by the Board, including pricing policies which set forth the mechanisms and processes to be employed on a daily basis to implement these policies and procedures. In particular, the pricing policies describe how to determine market quotations for securities and other instruments. The Committee’s responsibilities include: 1) fair value and liquidity determinations (and oversight of any third parties to whom any responsibility for fair value and liquidity determinations is delegated), and 2) regular monitoring of the Adviser’s pricing and valuation policies and procedures and modification or enhancement of these policies and procedures (or recommendation of the modification of these policies and procedures) as the Committee believes appropriate.

The Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of the pricing policies by the Adviser’s Pricing Group (the “Pricing Group”) and a third party which performs certain pricing functions in accordance with the pricing policies. The Pricing Group is responsible for the oversight of the third party on a day-to-day basis. The Committee and the Pricing Group perform a series of activities to provide reasonable assurance of the accuracy of prices including: 1) periodic vendor due diligence meetings, review of methodologies, new developments and process at vendors, 2) daily compare of security valuation versus prior day for all securities that exceeded established thresholds, and 3) daily review of unpriced, stale, and variance reports with exceptions reviewed by senior management and the Committee.

In addition, several processes outside of the pricing process are used to monitor valuation issues including: 1) performance and performance attribution reports are monitored for anomalous impacts based upon benchmark performance, and 2) portfolio managers review all portfolios for performance and analytics (which are generated using the Adviser’s prices).


AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

International Growth Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

 

Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

COMMON STOCKS - 97.6%

       

Financials - 25.3%

       

Banks - 7.2%

       

Credicorp Ltd.

     8,640         $ 1,325,290   

ING Groep NV (a)

     109,470           1,556,030   

Kasikornbank PCL (NVDR)

     123,900           896,140   

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.

     30,700           1,250,855   

UniCredit SpA

     201,820           1,585,475   
       

 

 

 
          6,613,790   
       

 

 

 

Capital Markets - 6.6%

       

Aberdeen Asset Management PLC

     219,480           1,415,977   

Azimut Holding SpA

     41,195           1,037,008   

Partners Group Holding AG

     6,680           1,755,731   

UBS AG (REG) (a)

     105,770           1,838,581   
       

 

 

 
          6,047,297   
       

 

 

 

Diversified Financial Services - 2.1%

       

IG Group Holdings PLC

     115,018           1,106,290   

London Stock Exchange Group PLC

     28,840           870,314   
       

 

 

 
          1,976,604   
       

 

 

 

Insurance - 6.1%

       

AIA Group Ltd.

     456,400           2,355,363   

Prudential PLC

     111,610           2,481,240   

St James’s Place PLC

     63,800           752,390   
       

 

 

 
          5,588,993   
       

 

 

 

Real Estate Management & Development - 1.2%

       

Global Logistic Properties Ltd.

     511,000           1,084,652   
       

 

 

 

Thrifts & Mortgage Finance - 2.1%

       

Housing Development Finance Corp.

     116,770           1,986,891   
       

 

 

 
          23,298,227   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Discretionary - 16.9%

Automobiles - 4.0%

       

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.

     157,300           1,522,687   

Tata Motors Ltd.-Class A

     203,420           1,130,759   

Volkswagen AG (Preference Shares)

     4,996           1,031,714   
       

 

 

 
          3,685,160   
       

 

 

 

Diversified Consumer Services - 0.8%

       

Kroton Educacional SA

     111,200           698,705   
       

 

 

 

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 1.8%

       

Alsea SAB de CV (a)

     208,911           659,686   

Melco Crown Entertainment Ltd. (ADR)

     39,920           1,049,497   
       

 

 

 
          1,709,183   
       

 

 

 

Household Durables - 1.4%

       

Panasonic Corp.

     106,800           1,272,882   
       

 

 

 

Internet & Catalog Retail - 0.7%

       

JD.com, Inc. (ADR) (a) (b)

     24,986           645,139   
       

 

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Media - 1.3%

       

Naspers Ltd.-Class N

     11,350           1,243,091   
       

 

 

 

Multiline Retail - 1.0%

       

Matahari Department Store Tbk PT

     693,500           923,797   
       

 

 

 

Specialty Retail - 2.7%

       

Card Factory PLC (a)

     121,486           456,917   

Chow Tai Fook Jewellery Group Ltd. (b)

     574,600           747,085   

Fast Retailing Co., Ltd.

     3,800           1,273,350   
       

 

 

 
          2,477,352   
       

 

 

 

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 3.2%

       

Brunello Cucinelli SpA (b)

     27,843           577,559   

Cie Financiere Richemont SA

     21,432           1,751,876   

Prada SpA (b)

     102,600           618,295   
       

 

 

 
          2,947,730   
       

 

 

 
          15,603,039   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Staples - 15.6%

Beverages - 2.0%

       

Anheuser-Busch InBev NV

     16,892           1,873,287   
       

 

 

 

Food & Staples Retailing - 1.7%

       

Magnit OJSC (Sponsored GDR) (c)

     14,220           821,347   

Tsuruha Holdings, Inc.

     13,400           745,345   
       

 

 

 
          1,566,692   
       

 

 

 

Food Products - 6.3%

       

Danone SA

     22,630           1,515,438   

Nestle SA

     31,302           2,300,415   

Universal Robina Corp.

     266,220           1,105,447   

WH Group Ltd. (a) (c)

     1,006,000           826,581   
       

 

 

 
          5,747,881   
       

 

 

 

Household Products - 3.2%

       

Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC

     21,090           1,823,392   

Unicharm Corp.

     50,100           1,141,849   
       

 

 

 
          2,965,241   
       

 

 

 

Tobacco - 2.4%

       

British American Tobacco PLC

     39,597           2,231,313   
       

 

 

 
          14,384,414   
       

 

 

 

Industrials - 12.1%

Aerospace & Defense - 2.0%

       

Safran SA

     27,950           1,812,102   
       

 

 

 

Commercial Services & Supplies - 1.3%

       

Aggreko PLC

     48,206           1,206,535   
       

 

 

 

Industrial Conglomerates - 1.7%

       

Toshiba Corp.

     343,000           1,592,269   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Machinery - 2.6%

       

Komatsu Ltd.

     70,200           1,622,402   

Melrose Industries PLC

     193,903           776,123   
       

 

 

 
          2,398,525   
       

 

 

 

Professional Services - 3.2%

       

Capita PLC

     97,380           1,833,218   

Intertek Group PLC

     25,890           1,097,206   
       

 

 

 
          2,930,424   
       

 

 

 

Trading Companies & Distributors - 1.3%

       

Wolseley PLC

     23,352           1,223,153   
       

 

 

 
          11,163,008   
       

 

 

 

Health Care - 12.0%

Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 1.9%

       

Elekta AB-Class B (b)

     66,270           651,387   

Essilor International SA

     9,860           1,081,323   
       

 

 

 
          1,732,710   
       

 

 

 

Health Care Providers & Services - 0.8%

       

Life Healthcare Group Holdings Ltd.

     179,870           709,081   
       

 

 

 

Pharmaceuticals - 9.3%

       

Aspen Pharmacare Holdings Ltd.

     32,981           981,995   

Bayer AG

     8,487           1,180,867   

H Lundbeck A/S

     30,270           675,914   

Novo Nordisk A/S-Class B

     27,145           1,292,422   

Roche Holding AG

     11,180           3,301,486   

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

     83,320           1,151,453   
       

 

 

 
          8,584,137   
       

 

 

 
          11,025,928   
       

 

 

 

Information Technology - 10.8%

Internet Software & Services - 3.8%

       

Baidu, Inc. (Sponsored ADR) (a)

     7,750           1,691,282   

Mail.ru Group Ltd. (GDR) (a) (c)

     16,988           477,533   

Tencent Holdings Ltd.

     90,300           1,341,468   
       

 

 

 
          3,510,283   
       

 

 

 

IT Services - 1.0%

       

Tata Consultancy Services Ltd.

     20,490           906,992   
       

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 5.2%

       

ams AG

     41,020           1,550,931   

MediaTek, Inc.

     116,000           1,717,925   

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

     375,000           1,492,922   
       

 

 

 
          4,761,778   
       

 

 

 

Software - 0.8%

       

Mobileye NV (a) (b)

     13,876           743,615   
       

 

 

 
          9,922,668   
       

 

 

 

Materials - 2.8%

       

Chemicals - 1.6%

       

Linde AG

     7,750           1,483,423   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Metals & Mining - 1.2%

       

BHP Billiton PLC

     38,980           1,078,210   
       

 

 

 
       2,561,633   
       

 

 

 

Energy - 2.1%

Energy Equipment & Services - 2.1%

       

Schlumberger Ltd.

     18,760           1,907,705   
       

 

 

 

Total Common Stocks
(cost $66,834,223)

   

       89,866,622   
       

 

 

 
     Principal
Amount

(000)
          

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 1.3%

       

Time Deposit - 1.3%

       

State Street Time Deposit
0.01%, 10/01/14
(cost $1,228,620)

   U.S.$ 1,229           1,228,620   
       

 

 

 

Total Investments Before Security Lending Collateral for Securities Loaned - 98.9%
(cost $68,062,843)

   

       91,095,242   
       

 

 

 
     Shares           

INVESTMENTS OF CASH COLLATERAL FOR SECURITIES LOANED - 4.2%

  

Investment Companies - 4.2%

       

AllianceBernstein Exchange Reserves-Class I,
0.04% (d)(e)
(cost $3,845,053)

     3,845,053           3,845,053   
       

 

 

 

Total Investments - 103.1%
(cost $71,907,896) (f)

   

       94,940,295   

Other assets less liabilities - (3.1)%

  

       (2,869,180
       

 

 

 

Net Assets - 100.0%

  

     $ 92,071,115   
       

 

 

 

FORWARD CURRENCY EXCHANGE CONTRACTS

 

Counterparty

   Contracts  to
Deliver

(000)
     In Exchange
For
(000)
     Settlement
Date
     Unrealized
Appreciation/

(Depreciation)
 

Barclays Bank PLC

     USD         3,655         JPY         383,313         11/14/14       $ (159,401

BNP Paribas SA

     USD         435         AUD         468         11/14/14         (26,515

BNP Paribas SA

     USD         1,092         SEK         7,539         11/14/14         (47,839

Credit Suisse International

     USD         1,257         RUB         50,067         11/14/14         (1,141

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

     USD         1,566         AUD         1,700         11/14/14         (82,530

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

     USD         554         NOK         3,457         11/14/14         (16,479

HSBC Bank USA

     RUB         75,848         USD         2,041         11/14/14         138,676   

Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.

     CHF         2,315         USD         2,521         11/14/14         95,756   

Standard Chartered Bank

     HKD         4,411         USD         569         11/14/14         1,153   

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     CHF         2,516         USD         2,778         11/14/14         141,760   

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD         3,746         CAD         4,120         11/14/14         (70,939

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD         2,319         EUR         1,731         11/14/14         (131,925

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

     USD         375         GBP         228         11/14/14         (5,464

UBS AG

     GBP         2,319         USD         3,891         11/14/14         132,658   
                 

 

 

 
   $ (32,230
                 

 

 

 


(a) Non-income producing security.
(b) Represents entire or partial securities out on loan.
(c) Security is exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities are considered liquid and may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At September 30, 2014, the aggregate market value of these securities amounted to $2,125,461 or 2.3% of net assets.
(d) To obtain a copy of the fund’s financial statements, please go to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov, or call AllianceBernstein at (800) 227-4618.
(e) Investment in affiliated money market mutual fund. The rate shown represents the 7-day yield as of period end.
(f) As of September 30, 2014, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $24,960,787 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(1,928,388), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $23,032,399.

Please note: The sector classifications presented herein are based on the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) which was developed by Morgan Stanley Capital International and Standard & Poor’s. The components are divided into sector, industry group, and industry sub-indices as classified by the GICS for each of the market capitalization indices in the broad market.

Currency Abbreviations:

 

AUD    -    Australian Dollar
CAD    -    Canadian Dollar
CHF    -    Swiss Franc
EUR    -    Euro
GBP    -    Great British Pound
HKD    -    Hong Kong Dollar

JPY

   -    Japanese Yen
NOK    -    Norwegian Krone
RUB    -    Russian Ruble
SEK    -    Swedish Krona
USD    -    United States Dollar

Glossary:

 

ADR    -    American Depositary Receipt
GDR    -    Global Depositary Receipt
NVDR    -    Non Voting Depositary Receipt
OJSC    -    Open Joint Stock Company
REG    -    Registered Shares

Country Breakdown *

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

 

  19.0%        

United Kingdom

  12.0%        

Switzerland

  11.4%        

Japan

  5.7%        

India

  5.5%        

Hong Kong

  4.8%        

France

  4.2%        

Italy

  4.1%        

Germany

  4.0%        

China

  3.5%        

Taiwan

  3.2%        

South Africa

  2.9%        

United States

  2.2%        

Denmark

  16.1%        

Other

  1.4%        

Short-Term

 

 

      
  100.0%        

Total Investments

 

 

      

 

* All data are as of September 30, 2014. The Portfolio’s country breakdown is expressed as a percentage of total investments and may vary over time. “Other” country weightings represent 2.1% or less in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Netherlands, Peru, Philippines, Russia, Singapore, Sweden and Thailand.


AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

International Growth Portfolio

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized below.

 

   

Level 1—quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

   

Level 2—other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)

   

Level 3—significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

The fair value of debt instruments, such as bonds, and over-the-counter derivatives is generally based on market price quotations, recently executed market transactions (where observable) or industry recognized modeling techniques and are generally classified as Level 2. Pricing vendor inputs to Level 2 valuations may include quoted prices for similar investments in active markets, interest rate curves, coupon rates, currency rates, yield curves, option adjusted spreads, default rates, credit spreads and other unique security features in order to estimate the relevant cash flows which is then discounted to calculate fair values. If these inputs are unobservable and significant to the fair value, these investments will be classified as Level 3. In addition, non-agency rated investments are classified as Level 3.

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

Other fixed income investments, including non-U.S. government and corporate debt, are generally valued using quoted market prices, if available, which are typically impacted by current interest rates, maturity dates and any perceived credit risk of the issuer. Additionally, in the absence of quoted market prices, these inputs are used by pricing vendors to derive a valuation based upon industry or proprietary models which incorporate issuer specific data with relevant yield/spread comparisons with more widely quoted bonds with similar key characteristics. Those investments for which there are observable inputs are classified as Level 2. Where the inputs are not observable, the investments are classified as Level 3.

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2014:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Assets:

        

Common Stock:

      

Financials

   $ 1,325,290      $ 21,972,937      $ – 0  –    $ 23,298,227   

Consumer Discretionary

     3,509,944        12,093,095        – 0  –      15,603,039   

Consumer Staples

     1,647,928        12,736,486        – 0  –      14,384,414   

Industrials

     – 0  –      11,163,008        – 0  –      11,163,008   

Health Care

     675,914        10,350,014        – 0  –      11,025,928   

Information Technology

     2,912,430        7,010,238        – 0  –      9,922,668   

Materials

     – 0  –      2,561,633        – 0  –      2,561,633   

Energy

     1,907,705        – 0  –      – 0  –      1,907,705   

Short-Term Investments

     – 0  –      1,228,620        – 0  –      1,228,620   

Investments of Cash Collateral for Securities Loaned in Affiliated Money Market Fund

     3,845,053        – 0  –      – 0  –      3,845,053   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     15,824,264        79,116,031     – 0  –      94,940,295   

Other Financial Instruments* :

        

Assets:

      

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      510,003        – 0  –      510,003   

Liabilities:

      

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      (542,233     – 0  –      (542,233
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total++

   $     15,824,264      $     79,083,801      $              – 0  –    $     94,908,065   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 


* Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/depreciation on the instrument.
+ A significant portion of the Portfolio’s foreign equity investments are categorized as Level 2 investments since they are valued using fair value prices based on third party vendor modeling tools to the extent available.
++ An amount of $4,915,880 was transferred from Level 1 to Level 2 due to the above mentioned foreign equity fair valuation using third party vendor modeling tools during the reporting period.

The Portfolio recognizes all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.

The Adviser has established a Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) which is responsible for overseeing the pricing and valuation of all securities held in the Portfolio. The Committee operates under pricing and valuation policies and procedures established by the Adviser and approved by the Board, including pricing policies which set forth the mechanisms and processes to be employed on a daily basis to implement these policies and procedures. In particular, the pricing policies describe how to determine market quotations for securities and other instruments. The Committee’s responsibilities include: 1) fair value and liquidity determinations (and oversight of any third parties to whom any responsibility for fair value and liquidity determinations is delegated), and 2) regular monitoring of the Adviser’s pricing and valuation policies and procedures and modification or enhancement of these policies and procedures (or recommendation of the modification of these policies and procedures) as the Committee believes appropriate.

The Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of the pricing policies by the Adviser’s Pricing Group (the “Pricing Group”) and a third party which performs certain pricing functions in accordance with the pricing policies. The Pricing Group is responsible for the oversight of the third party on a day-to-day basis. The Committee and the Pricing Group perform a series of activities to provide reasonable assurance of the accuracy of prices including: 1) periodic vendor due diligence meetings, review of methodologies, new developments and process at vendors, 2) daily compare of security valuation versus prior day for all securities that exceeded established thresholds, and 3) daily review of unpriced, stale, and variance reports with exceptions reviewed by senior management and the Committee.

In addition, several processes outside of the pricing process are used to monitor valuation issues including: 1) performance and performance attribution reports are monitored for anomalous impacts based upon benchmark performance, and 2) portfolio managers review all portfolios for performance and analytics (which are generated using the Adviser’s prices).


AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

International Value Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

 

Company

   Shares      U.S. $ Value  

COMMON STOCKS - 98.1%

     

Financials - 22.9%

     

Banks - 13.4%

     

Banco do Brasil SA

     153,800       $ 1,589,680   

Bank Hapoalim BM

     698,875         3,940,573   

Commerzbank AG (a)

     302,500         4,491,858   

Credit Agricole SA

     204,602         3,084,071   

Danske Bank A/S

     376,040         10,193,589   

ING Groep NV (a)

     372,250         5,291,242   

Itausa-Investimentos Itau SA (Preference Shares)

     608,300         2,303,724   

Kasikornbank PCL (NVDR)

     405,500         2,932,887   

KBC Groep NV (a)

     115,750         6,144,710   

Lloyds Banking Group PLC (a)

     5,117,618         6,366,662   

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc.

     1,585,600         8,935,988   

Shinhan Financial Group Co., Ltd.

     49,440         2,276,050   

Societe Generale SA

     260,342         13,279,493   

State Bank of India

     61,290         2,416,522   

Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc.

     153,800         6,266,497   

UniCredit SpA

     1,839,450         14,450,512   
     

 

 

 
        93,964,058   
     

 

 

 

Capital Markets - 1.2%

     

Deutsche Bank AG (REG)

     239,416         8,359,809   
     

 

 

 

Diversified Financial Services - 1.6%

     

ORIX Corp.

     821,900         11,346,694   
     

 

 

 

Insurance - 4.3%

     

AIA Group Ltd.

     1,170,400         6,040,133   

Aviva PLC

     425,660         3,601,115   

Direct Line Insurance Group PLC

     740,280         3,523,280   

Friends Life Group Ltd.

     658,700         3,280,334   

Muenchener Rueckversicherungs AG

     54,110         10,674,143   

Suncorp Group Ltd.

     264,230         3,247,749   
     

 

 

 
        30,366,754   
     

 

 

 

Real Estate Management & Development - 2.4%

     

Aeon Mall Co., Ltd.

     160,800         3,071,797   

China Overseas Land & Investment Ltd.

     948,000         2,430,458   

Country Garden Holdings Co., Ltd.

     5,939,000         2,240,051   

Lend Lease Group

     515,630         6,474,156   

Wharf Holdings Ltd. (The)

     311,000         2,210,946   
     

 

 

 
        16,427,408   
     

 

 

 
        160,464,723   
     

 

 

 

Consumer Discretionary - 14.1%

     

Auto Components - 5.7%

     

Cie Generale des Etablissements Michelin-Class B

     95,132         8,960,556   

GKN PLC

     407,270         2,097,272   

Plastic Omnium SA

     132,470         3,163,041   

Sumitomo Electric Industries Ltd.

     608,600         9,009,600   

Sumitomo Rubber Industries Ltd.

     230,400         3,277,457   

Valeo SA

     117,650         13,072,627   
     

 

 

 
        39,580,553   
     

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Automobiles - 4.5%

       

Bayerische Motoren Werke AG

     42,820           4,576,356   

Great Wall Motor Co., Ltd.-Class H

     892,000           3,456,895   

Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (b)

     334,300           11,469,777   

Renault SA

     44,920           3,249,498   

Tata Motors Ltd.

     342,320           2,783,438   

Volkswagen AG (Preference Shares)

     29,630           6,118,833   
       

 

 

 
          31,654,797   
       

 

 

 

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 0.6%

       

William Hill PLC

     745,704           4,456,329   
       

 

 

 

Media - 1.3%

       

Liberty Global PLC-Series C (a)

     220,370           9,038,475   
       

 

 

 

Specialty Retail - 1.6%

       

Kingfisher PLC

     644,960           3,373,060   

Shimamura Co., Ltd.

     38,300           3,521,030   

Yamada Denki Co., Ltd. (b)

     1,423,900           4,156,125   
       

 

 

 
          11,050,215   
       

 

 

 

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 0.4%

       

Kering

     14,000           2,822,677   
       

 

 

 
          98,603,046   
       

 

 

 

Industrials - 13.7%

       

Aerospace & Defense - 4.7%

       

Airbus Group NV

     273,350           17,182,897   

MTU Aero Engines AG

     45,650           3,883,830   

Safran SA

     143,270           9,288,722   

Thales SA

     47,740           2,540,824   
       

 

 

 
          32,896,273   
       

 

 

 

Air Freight & Logistics - 0.4%

       

Royal Mail PLC

     490,910           3,110,090   
       

 

 

 

Airlines - 1.4%

       

Japan Airlines Co., Ltd.

     95,800           2,621,345   

Qantas Airways Ltd. (a)

     3,169,033           3,849,557   

Turk Hava Yollari (a)

     1,083,248           3,079,837   
       

 

 

 
          9,550,739   
       

 

 

 

Building Products - 0.4%

       

Asahi Glass Co., Ltd. (b)

     460,000           2,495,406   
       

 

 

 

Industrial Conglomerates - 2.3%

       

Bidvest Group Ltd. (The)

     110,440           2,794,535   

Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.

     415,000           5,016,768   

Toshiba Corp.

     1,731,000           8,035,621   
       

 

 

 
          15,846,924   
       

 

 

 

Machinery - 1.1%

       

JTEKT Corp.

     453,100           7,594,634   
       

 

 

 

Marine - 1.3%

       

AP Moeller-Maersk A/S-Class B

     1,556           3,685,921   


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Nippon Yusen KK

     2,159,000           5,692,401   
       

 

 

 
          9,378,322   
       

 

 

 

Road & Rail - 0.9%

       

Central Japan Railway Co. (b)

     49,100           6,623,035   
       

 

 

 

Trading Companies & Distributors - 1.2%

       

Mitsubishi Corp.

     272,000           5,570,626   

Rexel SA

     154,738           2,889,696   
       

 

 

 
          8,460,322   
       

 

 

 
          95,955,745   
       

 

 

 

Health Care - 9.3%

       

Biotechnology - 2.0%

       

Actelion Ltd. (REG) (a)

     118,920           13,928,618   
       

 

 

 

Pharmaceuticals - 7.3%

       

Astellas Pharma, Inc.

     566,100           8,431,250   

GlaxoSmithKline PLC

     832,320           19,013,629   

Roche Holding AG

     71,240           21,037,380   

Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.

     45,750           2,462,272   
       

 

 

 
          50,944,531   
       

 

 

 
          64,873,149   
       

 

 

 

Telecommunication Services - 8.9%

       

Diversified Telecommunication Services - 5.9%

       

Bezeq The Israeli Telecommunication Corp., Ltd.

     1,378,693           2,379,933   

Hellenic Telecommunications Organization SA (a)

     164,210           2,156,044   

Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp.

     157,300           9,754,847   

Orange SA

     914,040           13,639,861   

Telenor ASA

     168,030           3,687,835   

Vivendi SA (a)

     231,756           5,596,394   

Ziggo NV (a)

     91,630           4,291,145   
       

 

 

 
          41,506,059   
       

 

 

 

Wireless Telecommunication Services - 3.0%

       

China Mobile Ltd.

     394,000           4,605,645   

Turkcell Iletisim Hizmetleri AS (a)

     546,640           2,857,595   

Vodafone Group PLC

     4,150,324           13,676,242   
       

 

 

 
          21,139,482   
       

 

 

 
          62,645,541   
       

 

 

 

Materials - 7.8%

       

Chemicals - 5.0%

       

Arkema SA (b)

     85,586           5,735,064   

BASF SE

     22,660           2,066,985   

Denki Kagaku Kogyo KK (b)

     970,000           3,179,941   

Incitec Pivot Ltd.

     1,220,030           2,890,023   

JSR Corp. (b)

     523,200           9,130,805   

Koninklijke DSM NV

     118,995           7,337,054   

Mitsubishi Gas Chemical Co., Inc. (b)

     763,000           4,864,685   
       

 

 

 
          35,204,557   
       

 

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Metals & Mining - 2.1%

       

Dowa Holdings Co., Ltd.

     289,000           2,408,236   

MMC Norilsk Nickel OJSC (ADR)

     134,300           2,504,695   

Rio Tinto PLC

     192,460           9,430,510   
       

 

 

 
          14,343,441   
       

 

 

 

Paper & Forest Products - 0.7%

       

Mondi PLC

     298,840           4,873,647   
       

 

 

 
          54,421,645   
       

 

 

 

Energy - 7.4%

       

Energy Equipment & Services - 0.6%

       

Akastor ASA

     314,702           1,267,136   

Aker Solutions ASA (a)(c)

     314,702           3,134,897   
       

 

 

 
          4,402,033   
       

 

 

 

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 6.8%

       

BG Group PLC

     442,786           8,174,201   

China Petroleum & Chemical Corp.-Class H

     2,408,000           2,106,139   

JX Holdings, Inc.

     2,278,200           10,504,231   

Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Sponsored ADR)

     139,500           2,077,155   

Royal Dutch Shell PLC (Euronext Amsterdam)-Class A

     251,719           9,608,793   

Total SA

     233,300           15,107,131   
       

 

 

 
          47,577,650   
       

 

 

 
          51,979,683   
       

 

 

 

Information Technology - 6.5%

       

IT Services - 0.5%

       

Cap Gemini SA

     53,510           3,837,392   
       

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 4.2%

       

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.

     2,956,000           3,452,768   

ASM International NV

     94,630           3,436,153   

Novatek Microelectronics Corp.

     853,000           4,209,713   

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.

     7,370           8,254,454   

Sumco Corp. (b)

     503,400           6,104,340   

Tokyo Electron Ltd.

     58,500           3,812,751   
       

 

 

 
          29,270,179   
       

 

 

 

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 1.8%

       

Asustek Computer, Inc.

     394,000           3,759,697   

Casetek Holdings Ltd.

     507,000           3,096,098   

Catcher Technology Co., Ltd.

     635,000           5,881,216   
       

 

 

 
          12,737,011   
       

 

 

 
          45,844,582   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Staples - 4.8%

       

Beverages - 1.0%

       

Asahi Group Holdings Ltd.

     92,600           2,678,562   

Carlsberg A/S-Class B

     52,510           4,663,550   
       

 

 

 
          7,342,112   
       

 

 

 

Food & Staples Retailing - 1.4%

       

Koninklijke Ahold NV

     624,565           10,102,752   
       

 

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Food Products - 0.4%

       

Danone SA

     40,768           2,730,066   
       

 

 

 

Household Products - 0.8%

       

Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC

     62,830           5,432,133   
       

 

 

 

Tobacco - 1.2%

       

Imperial Tobacco Group PLC

     192,030           8,268,031   
       

 

 

 
       33,875,094   
       

 

 

 

Utilities - 2.7%

       

Electric Utilities - 2.7%

       

EDP - Energias de Portugal SA

     1,693,040           7,382,759   

Electricite de France SA

     138,950           4,558,496   

Enel SpA

     952,320           5,037,882   

Light SA

     189,500           1,601,005   
       

 

 

 
       18,580,142   
       

 

 

 

Total Common Stocks
(cost $644,314,041)

   

       687,243,350   
       

 

 

 

WARRANTS - 0.4%

       

Financials - 0.4%

       

Real Estate Management & Development - 0.4%

       

Emaar Properties PJSC, Merrill Lynch Intl & Co., expiring 10/01/15 (a)
(cost $1,275,590)

     935,380           2,941,687   
       

 

 

 

RIGHTS - 0.0%

       

Financials - 0.0%

       

Real Estate Management & Development - 0.0%

       

Country Garden Holdings Co., Ltd., expiring 10/08/14 (a)
(cost $0)

     423,333           23,988   
       

 

 

 
     Principal
Amount

(000)
          

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 0.8%

       

Time Deposit - 0.8%

       

State Street Time Deposit
0.01%, 10/01/14
(cost $5,547,484)

   $ 5,547           5,547,484   
       

 

 

 

Total Investments Before Security Lending Collateral for Securities
Loaned - 99.3%

(cost $651,137,115)

          695,756,509   
       

 

 

 
     Shares           

INVESTMENTS OF CASH COLLATERAL FOR SECURITIES LOANED - 2.2%

  

    

Investment Companies - 2.2%

       

AllianceBernstein Exchange Reserves - Class I, 0.04% (d)(e)
(cost $15,108,816)

     15,108,816           15,108,816   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares    U.S. $ Value  

Total Investments – 101.5%
(cost $666,245,931) (f)

      $ 710,865,325   

Other assets less liabilities – (1.5)% (g)

        (10,240,728
     

 

 

 

Net Assets – 100.0%

      $ 700,624,597   
     

 

 

 

FUTURES

 

Type

   Number
of
Contracts
     Expiration
Month
     Original
Value
   Value at
September 30,
2014
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Purchased Contracts

                 

Euro STOXX 50 Index Futures

     63         December 2014       $2,541,796    $ 2,564,612       $ 22,816   

FORWARD CURRENCY EXCHANGE CONTRACTS

 

Counterparty

   Contracts to
Deliver
(000)
     In Exchange
For
(000)
     Settlement
Date
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

Barclays Bank PLC

   USD      22,885       EUR      16,773         10/15/14       $ (1,698,500

Barclays Bank PLC

   USD      14,674       JPY      1,602,405         10/15/14         (62,345

BNP Paribas SA

   AUD      7,826       USD      7,290         10/15/14         444,073   

BNP Paribas SA

   JPY      9,551,693       USD      93,954         10/15/14         6,855,609   

BNP Paribas SA

   USD      5,223       AUD      5,629         10/15/14         (299,262

BNP Paribas SA

   USD      2,209       KRW      2,257,872         10/15/14         (73,230

Citibank, NA

   AUD      4,369       USD      3,847         10/15/14         25,433   

Citibank, NA

   GBP      10,964       USD      17,874         10/15/14         101,271   

Citibank, NA

   JPY      1,459,308       USD      14,382         10/15/14         1,074,795   

Citibank, NA

   RUB      79,782       USD      2,276         10/15/14         264,049   

Citibank, NA

   USD      6,082       EUR      4,555         10/15/14         (328,074

Citibank, NA

   USD      35,759       SEK      244,179         10/15/14         (1,921,971

Credit Suisse International

   KRW      9,495,469       USD      9,142         10/15/14         158,590   

Credit Suisse International

   USD      15,990       NOK      99,596         10/15/14         (495,119

Credit Suisse International

   USD      25,525       GBP      15,743         1/15/15         (28,085

Deutsche Bank AG

   NOK      163,851       USD      25,562         10/15/14         70,083   

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

   CNY      11,307       USD      1,829         10/15/14         (10,355

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

   USD      2,543       CNY      15,698         10/15/14         11,167   

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

   USD      57,179       JPY      5,943,830         10/15/14         (2,979,443

Goldman Sachs Bank USA

   USD      27,955       NZD      32,340         10/15/14         (2,741,058

HSBC Bank USA

   CHF      10,963       USD      12,293         10/15/14         808,774   

HSBC Bank USA

   HKD      162,386       USD      20,952         10/15/14         40,022   

HSBC Bank USA

   USD      19,584       GBP      11,539         10/15/14         (879,706

JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA

   USD      1,842       HKD      14,272         10/15/14         (3,666

Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.

   CNY      97,498       USD      15,725         10/15/14         (137,626

Morgan Stanley & Co., Inc.

   USD      16,832       CHF      15,459         10/15/14         (638,089

Northern Trust Co.

   USD      14,868       NOK      92,274         10/15/14         (512,728

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

   NZD      32,340       USD      27,509         10/15/14         2,295,707   

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

   SEK      143,674       USD      19,892         10/15/14         (17,289

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

   USD      6,133       AUD      6,566         10/15/14         (389,005

Royal Bank of Scotland PLC

   USD      19,279       EUR      15,161         10/15/14         (128,473

Standard Chartered Bank

   CNY      12,771       USD      2,063         10/15/14         (15,199

Standard Chartered Bank

   GBP      12,715       USD      20,907         10/15/14         296,357   

Standard Chartered Bank

   USD      3,580       CNY      22,040         10/15/14         6,343   

Standard Chartered Bank

   USD      3,627       HKD      28,113         10/15/14         (7,046

Standard Chartered Bank

   KRW      2,651,814       USD      2,527         1/15/15         31,699   


Counterparty

   Contracts to
Deliver
(000)
     In Exchange
For
(000)
     Settlement
Date
     Unrealized
Appreciation/
(Depreciation)
 

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   HKD      14,709       USD      1,898         10/15/14       $ 3,358   

State Street Bank & Trust Co.

   USD      3,754       HKD      29,097         10/15/14         (7,244

UBS AG

   EUR      45,229       USD      59,463         10/15/14         2,331,732   

UBS AG

   USD      32,483       GBP      18,982         10/15/14         (1,713,746

UBS AG

   USD      12,650       JPY      1,294,311         10/15/14         (848,019

UBS AG

   EUR      6,566       USD      8,511         1/15/15         211,441   

UBS AG

   USD      6,761       CHF      6,416         1/15/15         (32,955
                 

 

 

 
   $ (937,730
                 

 

 

 

 

(a) Non-income producing security.
(b) Represents entire or partial securities out on loan.
(c) Security is exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. This security is considered liquid and may be resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At September 30, 2014, the market value of this security amounted to $3,134,897 or 0.4% of net assets.
(d) Investment in affiliated money market mutual fund. The rate shown represents the 7-day yield as of period end.
(e) To obtain a copy of the fund’s financial statements, please go to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov, or call AllianceBernstein at (800) 227-4618.
(f) As of September 30, 2014, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $76,613,632 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(31,994,238), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $44,619,394.
(g) An amount of U.S. $226,251 has been segregated to collateralize margin requirements for the open futures contracts at September 30, 2014.

Please note: The sector classifications presented herein are based on the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) which was developed by Morgan Stanley Capital International and Standard & Poor’s. The components are divided into sector, industry group, and industry sub-indices as classified by the GICS for each of the market capitalization indices in the broad market.

Currency Abbreviations:

 

AUD    -    Australian Dollar
CHF    -    Swiss Franc
CNY    -    Chinese Yuan Renminbi
EUR    -    Euro
GBP    -    Great British Pound
HKD    -    Hong Kong Dollar
JPY    -    Japanese Yen
KRW    -    South Korean Won
NOK    -    Norwegian Krone
NZD    -    New Zealand Dollar
RUB    -    Russian Ruble
SEK    -    Swedish Krona
USD    -    United States Dollar

Glossary:

 

ADR    -    American Depositary Receipt
NVDR    -    Non Voting Depositary Receipt
OJSC    -    Open Joint Stock Company
PJSC    -    Public Joint Stock Company
REG    -    Registered Shares


Country Breakdown *

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

 

  23.1%        

Japan

  18.8%        

France

  14.8%        

United Kingdom

  5.8%        

Germany

  5.7%        

Netherlands

  5.0%        

Switzerland

  2.9%        

Taiwan

  2.8%        

Italy

  2.7%        

Denmark

  2.4%        

Australia

  2.1%        

China

  1.9%        

Hong Kong

  1.5%        

South Korea

  9.7%        

Other

  0.8%        

Short-Term

 

 

      
  100.0%        

Total Investments

 

 

      

 

* All data are as of September 30, 2014. The Portfolio’s country breakdown is expressed as a percentage of total investments and may vary over time. “Other” country weightings represent 1.3% or less in the following countries: Belgium, Brazil, Greece, India, Israel, Norway, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, and United Arab Emirates.


AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

International Value Portfolio

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized below.

 

   

Level 1—quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

   

Level 2—other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)

   

Level 3—significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

The fair value of debt instruments, such as bonds, and over-the-counter derivatives is generally based on market price quotations, recently executed market transactions (where observable) or industry recognized modeling techniques and are generally classified as Level 2. Pricing vendor inputs to Level 2 valuations may include quoted prices for similar investments in active markets, interest rate curves, coupon rates, currency rates, yield curves, option adjusted spreads, default rates, credit spreads and other unique security features in order to estimate the relevant cash flows which is then discounted to calculate fair values. If these inputs are unobservable and significant to the fair value, these investments will be classified as Level 3. In addition, non-agency rated investments are classified as Level 3.

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

Options and warrants are valued using market-based inputs to models, broker or dealer quotations, or alternative pricing sources with reasonable levels of price transparency, where such inputs and models are available. Alternatively the values may be obtained through unobservable management determined inputs and/or management’s proprietary models. Where models are used, the selection of a particular model to value an option or a warrant depends upon the contractual terms of, and specific risks inherent in, the option or warrant as well as the availability of pricing information in the market. Valuation models require a variety of inputs, including contractual terms, market prices, measures of volatility and correlations of such inputs. Exchange traded options generally will be classified as Level 2. For options or warrants that do not trade on exchange but trade in liquid markets, inputs can generally be verified and model selection does not involve significant management judgment. Options and warrants are classified within Level 2 on the fair value hierarchy when all of the significant inputs can be corroborated to market evidence. Otherwise such instruments are classified as Level 3.

Other fixed income investments, including non-U.S. government and corporate debt, are generally valued using quoted market prices, if available, which are typically impacted by current interest rates, maturity dates and any perceived credit risk of the issuer. Additionally, in the absence of quoted market prices, these inputs are used by pricing vendors to derive a valuation based upon industry or proprietary models which incorporate issuer specific data with relevant yield/spread comparisons with more widely quoted bonds with similar key characteristics. Those investments for which there are observable inputs are classified as Level 2. Where the inputs are not observable, the investments are classified as Level 3.

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2014:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2      Level 3     Total  

Assets:

         

Common Stock:

       

Financials

   $     3,893,404      $     156,571,319       $             – 0  –   $     160,464,723   

Consumer Discretionary

     9,038,475        89,564,571         – 0  –     98,603,046   

Industrials

     – 0  –     95,955,745         – 0  –     95,955,745   

Health Care

     – 0  –     64,873,149         – 0  –     64,873,149   

Telecommunication Services

     – 0  –     62,645,541         – 0  –     62,645,541   

Materials

     2,504,695        51,916,950         – 0  –     54,421,645   

Energy

     5,212,052        46,767,631         – 0  –     51,979,683   

Information Technology

     – 0  –     45,844,582         – 0  –     45,844,582   

Consumer Staples

     – 0  –     33,875,094         – 0  –     33,875,094   

Utilities

     1,601,005        16,979,137         – 0  –     18,580,142   


Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Warrants

     – 0  –      2,941,687        – 0  –      2,941,687   

Rights

     23,988        – 0  –      – 0  –      23,988   

Short-Term Investments

     – 0  –      5,547,484        – 0  –      5,547,484   

Investments of Cash Collateral for Securities Loaned in Affiliated Money Market Fund

     15,108,816        – 0  –      – 0  –      15,108,816   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     37,382,435        673,482,890+        – 0  –      710,865,325   

Other Financial Instruments* :

        

Assets:

        

Futures

     – 0  –      22,816        – 0  –      22,816   

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      15,030,503        – 0  –      15,030,503   

Liabilities:

        

Forward Currency Exchange Contracts

     – 0  –      (15,968,233     – 0  –      (15,968,233
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total++

   $     37,382,435      $     672,567,976      $             – 0  –    $     709,950,411   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

* Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/depreciation on the instrument.
+ A significant portion of the Portfolio’s foreign equity investments are categorized as Level 2 investments since they are valued using fair value prices based on third party vendor modeling tools to the extent available.
++ There were de minimis transfers under 1% of net assets from Level 2 to Level 1 during the reporting period.

The Portfolio recognizes all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.

The Adviser has established a Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) which is responsible for overseeing the pricing and valuation of all securities held in the Portfolio. The Committee operates under pricing and valuation policies and procedures established by the Adviser and approved by the Board, including pricing policies which set forth the mechanisms and processes to be employed on a daily basis to implement these policies and procedures. In particular, the pricing policies describe how to determine market quotations for securities and other instruments. The Committee’s responsibilities include: 1) fair value and liquidity determinations (and oversight of any third parties to whom any responsibility for fair value and liquidity determinations is delegated), and 2) regular monitoring of the Adviser’s pricing and valuation policies and procedures and modification or enhancement of these policies and procedures (or recommendation of the modification of these policies and procedures) as the Committee believes appropriate.

The Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of the pricing policies by the Adviser’s Pricing Group (the “Pricing Group”) and a third party which performs certain pricing functions in accordance with the pricing policies. The Pricing Group is responsible for the oversight of the third party on a day-to-day basis. The Committee and the Pricing Group perform a series of activities to provide reasonable assurance of the accuracy of prices including: 1) periodic vendor due diligence meetings, review of methodologies, new developments and process at vendors, 2) daily compare of security valuation versus prior day for all securities that exceeded established thresholds, and 3) daily review of unpriced, stale, and variance reports with exceptions reviewed by senior management and the Committee.

In addition, several processes outside of the pricing process are used to monitor valuation issues including: 1) performance and performance attribution reports are monitored for anomalous impacts based upon benchmark performance, and 2) portfolio managers review all portfolios for performance and analytics (which are generated using the Adviser’s prices).


AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

Large Cap Growth Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

 

Company

   Shares      U.S. $ Value  

COMMON STOCKS - 94.9%

     

Consumer Discretionary - 23.0%

     

Advertising Agencies - 1.2%

     

Nielsen NV

     109,120       $ 4,837,290   
     

 

 

 

Cable Television Services - 2.8%

     

Comcast Corp. - Class A

     215,430         11,585,826   
     

 

 

 

Cosmetics - 0.8%

     

Estee Lauder Cos., Inc. (The) - Class A

     42,610         3,183,819   
     

 

 

 

Diversified Media - 0.3%

     

Discovery Communications, Inc. - Class A (a)

     37,433         1,414,967   
     

 

 

 

Diversified Retail - 1.2%

     

Costco Wholesale Corp.

     38,820         4,864,922   
     

 

 

 

Entertainment - 2.6%

     

Walt Disney Co. (The)

     121,510         10,818,035   
     

 

 

 

Leisure Time - 2.6%

     

Priceline Group, Inc. (The) (a)

     9,240         10,705,279   
     

 

 

 

Recreational Vehicles & Boats - 1.6%

     

Polaris Industries, Inc.

     43,090         6,454,451   
     

 

 

 

Restaurants - 2.2%

     

Starbucks Corp.

     120,045         9,058,596   
     

 

 

 

Specialty Retail - 4.7%

     

Home Depot, Inc. (The)

     100,380         9,208,861   

O’Reilly Automotive, Inc. (a)

     24,630         3,703,367   

Ulta Salon Cosmetics & Fragrance, Inc. (a)

     52,780         6,237,013   
     

 

 

 
        19,149,241   
     

 

 

 

Textiles, Apparel & Shoes - 3.0%

     

Michael Kors Holdings Ltd. (a)

     32,030         2,286,622   

NIKE, Inc. - Class B

     94,230         8,405,316   

Ralph Lauren Corp.

     9,500         1,564,935   
     

 

 

 
        12,256,873   
     

 

 

 
        94,329,299   
     

 

 

 

Technology - 21.9%

     

Computer Services, Software & Systems - 12.0%

     

ANSYS, Inc. (a)

     90,772         6,868,717   

Aspen Technology, Inc. (a)

     37,820         1,426,570   

Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp.-Class A (a)

     53,780         2,407,731   

F5 Networks, Inc. (a)

     32,750         3,888,735   

Facebook, Inc.-Class A(a)

     92,940         7,345,978   

Google, Inc.-Class A (a)

     18,650         10,973,847   

Google, Inc.-Class C (a)

     20,020         11,558,747   

NetSuite, Inc. (a)

     27,839         2,492,704   

ServiceNow, Inc. (a)

     40,873         2,402,515   
     

 

 

 
        49,365,544   
     

 

 

 

Computer Technology - 4.8%

     

Apple, Inc.

     194,855         19,631,641   
     

 

 

 

 


Company

   Shares      U.S. $ Value  

Electronic Components - 1.6%

     

Amphenol Corp.-Class A

     67,910         6,781,493   
     

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Component - 3.5%

     

Altera Corp.

     66,510         2,379,728   

Linear Technology Corp.

     172,740         7,667,928   

NXP Semiconductor NV (a)

     60,500         4,140,015   
     

 

 

 
        14,187,671   
     

 

 

 
        89,966,349   
     

 

 

 

Health Care - 16.7%

     

Biotechnology - 3.1%

     

Biogen Idec, Inc. (a)

     38,964         12,889,681   
     

 

 

 

Health Care Management Services - 1.6%

     

UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

     78,561         6,775,886   
     

 

 

 

Health Care Services - 0.8%

     

McKesson Corp.

     16,930         3,295,763   
     

 

 

 

Health Care: Misc. - 1.6%

     

Quintiles Transnational Holdings, Inc. (a)

     116,928         6,522,244   
     

 

 

 

Medical Equipment - 1.6%

     

Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (a)

     14,090         6,507,044   
     

 

 

 

Pharmaceuticals - 8.0%

     

Allergan, Inc./United States

     88,306         15,735,246   

Gilead Sciences, Inc. (a)

     159,100         16,936,195   
     

 

 

 
        32,671,441   
     

 

 

 
        68,662,059   
     

 

 

 

Consumer Staples - 10.3%

     

Beverage: Soft Drinks - 3.3%

     

Keurig Green Mountain, Inc.

     23,660         3,078,876   

Monster Beverage Corp. (a)

     113,516         10,406,011   
     

 

 

 
        13,484,887   
     

 

 

 

Drug & Grocery Store Chains - 2.6%

     

CVS Health Corp.

     136,830         10,890,300   
     

 

 

 

Foods - 1.6%

     

Mead Johnson Nutrition Co.-Class A

     68,040         6,546,809   
     

 

 

 

Tobacco - 2.8%

     

Philip Morris International, Inc.

     138,311         11,535,137   
     

 

 

 
        42,457,133   
     

 

 

 

Producer Durables - 8.9%

     

Aerospace - 1.7%

     

Boeing Co. (The)

     55,210         7,032,650   
     

 

 

 

Air Transport - 1.3%

     

Copa Holdings SA-Class A

     48,840         5,240,043   
     

 

 

 

Diversified Manufacturing Operations - 1.6%

     

Danaher Corp.

     86,852         6,599,015   
     

 

 

 

 


Company

   Shares      U.S. $ Value  

Railroad Equipment - 0.9%

     

Wabtec Corp./DE

     47,510         3,850,210   
     

 

 

 

Scientific Instruments: Control & Filter - 1.0%

     

Pall Corp.

     46,370         3,881,169   
     

 

 

 

Scientific Instruments: Electrical - 1.7%

     

AMETEK, Inc.

     141,851         7,122,339   
     

 

 

 

Scientific Instruments: Gauges & Meters - 0.7%

     

Mettler-Toledo International, Inc. (a)

     10,655         2,729,065   
     

 

 

 
     36,454,491   
     

 

 

 

Financial Services - 7.6%

     

Asset Management & Custodian - 2.7%

     

Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. (a)

     27,151         5,439,974   

BlackRock, Inc.-Class A

     17,530         5,755,450   
     

 

 

 
     11,195,424   
     

 

 

 

Diversified Financial Services - 0.5%

     

Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. (ADR) (a)

     22,290         1,980,466   
     

 

 

 

Financial Data & Systems - 3.6%

     

Visa, Inc.-Class A

     69,980         14,931,633   
     

 

 

 

Securities Brokerage & Services - 0.8%

     

Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.

     16,051         3,130,748   
     

 

 

 
     31,238,271   
     

 

 

 

Energy - 4.2%

     

Oil Well Equipment & Services - 4.2%

     

FMC Technologies, Inc. (a)

     88,970         4,831,961   

Oceaneering International, Inc.

     21,570         1,405,717   

Schlumberger Ltd.

     108,115         10,994,214   
     

 

 

 
     17,231,892   
     

 

 

 

Materials & Processing - 2.3%

     

Fertilizers - 1.5%

     

Monsanto Co.

     54,583         6,141,133   
     

 

 

 

Metal Fabricating - 0.8%

     

Precision Castparts Corp.

     13,438         3,183,194   
     

 

 

 
     9,324,327   
     

 

 

 

Total Common Stocks
(cost $298,327,721)

   

     389,663,821   
     

 

 

 
      Principal
Amount
(000)
        

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 4.8%

     

Time Deposit - 4.8%

     

State Street Time Deposit
0.01%, 10/01/14
(Cost $19,419,504)

   $ 19,420         19,419,504   
     

 

 

 

 


Company

        U.S. $ Value  

Total Investments – 99.7%
(cost $317,747,225) (b)

        409,083,325   

Other assets less liabilities – 0.3%

        1,432,623   
     

 

 

 

Net Assets – 100.0%

      $ 410,515,948   
     

 

 

 

 

(a) Non-income producing security.
(b) As of September 30, 2014, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $94,343,262 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(3,007,162), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $91,336,100.

Please note: The sector classifications presented herein are based on the Russell sector classification scheme which was developed by Russell Investments. Russell classifies index members into industries that most closely describe the nature of its business and its primary economic orientation.

Glossary:

 

ADR    -    American Depositary Receipt


AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

Large Cap Growth Portfolio

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized below.

 

   

Level 1—quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

   

Level 2—other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)

   

Level 3—significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

The fair value of debt instruments, such as bonds, and over-the-counter derivatives is generally based on market price quotations, recently executed market transactions (where observable) or industry recognized modeling techniques and are generally classified as Level 2. Pricing vendor inputs to Level 2 valuations may include quoted prices for similar investments in active markets, interest rate curves, coupon rates, currency rates, yield curves, option adjusted spreads, default rates, credit spreads and other unique security features in order to estimate the relevant cash flows which is then discounted to calculate fair values. If these inputs are unobservable and significant to the fair value, these investments will be classified as Level 3. In addition, non-agency rated investments are classified as Level 3.

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

Other fixed income investments, including non-U.S. government and corporate debt, are generally valued using quoted market prices, if available, which are typically impacted by current interest rates, maturity dates and any perceived credit risk of the issuer. Additionally, in the absence of quoted market prices, these inputs are used by pricing vendors to derive a valuation based upon industry or proprietary models which incorporate issuer specific data with relevant yield/spread comparisons with more widely quoted bonds with similar key characteristics. Those investments for which there are observable inputs are classified as Level 2. Where the inputs are not observable, the investments are classified as Level 3.

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2014:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Assets:

        

Common Stocks*

   $ 389,663,821      $ – 0  –    $ – 0  –    $ 389,663,821   

Short-Term Investments

     – 0  –      19,419,504        – 0  –      19,419,504   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     389,663,821        19,419,504        – 0  –      409,083,325   

Other Financial Instruments**

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total+

   $     389,663,821      $     19,419,504      $             – 0  –    $     409,083,325   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

* See Portfolio of Investments for sector classifications.
** Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/depreciation on the instrument.
+ There were no transfers between any levels during the reporting period.

The Portfolio recognizes all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.

 


The Adviser has established a Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) which is responsible for overseeing the pricing and valuation of all securities held in the Portfolio. The Committee operates under pricing and valuation policies and procedures established by the Adviser and approved by the Board, including pricing policies which set forth the mechanisms and processes to be employed on a daily basis to implement these policies and procedures. In particular, the pricing policies describe how to determine market quotations for securities and other instruments. The Committee’s responsibilities include: 1) fair value and liquidity determinations (and oversight of any third parties to whom any responsibility for fair value and liquidity determinations is delegated), and 2) regular monitoring of the Adviser’s pricing and valuation policies and procedures and modification or enhancement of these policies and procedures (or recommendation of the modification of these policies and procedures) as the Committee believes appropriate.

The Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of the pricing policies by the Adviser’s Pricing Group (the “Pricing Group”) and a third party which performs certain pricing functions in accordance with the pricing policies. The Pricing Group is responsible for the oversight of the third party on a day-to-day basis. The Committee and the Pricing Group perform a series of activities to provide reasonable assurance of the accuracy of prices including: 1) periodic vendor due diligence meetings, review of methodologies, new developments and process at vendors, 2) daily compare of security valuation versus prior day for all securities that exceeded established thresholds, and 3) daily review of unpriced, stale, and variance reports with exceptions reviewed by senior management and the Committee.

In addition, several processes outside of the pricing process are used to monitor valuation issues including: 1) performance and performance attribution reports are monitored for anomalous impacts based upon benchmark performance, and 2) portfolio managers review all portfolios for performance and analytics (which are generated using the Adviser’s prices).


AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

Real Estate Investment Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

 

Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

COMMON STOCKS - 99.6%

       

Equity: Other - 31.0%

       

Diversified/Specialty - 19.1%

       

American Tower Corp.

     16,320         $ 1,528,042   

Armada Hoffler Properties, Inc.

     20,130           182,780   

BioMed Realty Trust, Inc.

     15,250           308,050   

Chambers Street Properties

     31,810           239,529   

ClubCorp Holdings, Inc.

     26,054           516,651   

Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (a)

     4,630           288,819   

Gramercy Property Trust, Inc.

     117,312           675,717   

Home Depot, Inc. (The)

     1,860           170,636   

Kennedy-Wilson Holdings, Inc.

     28,310           678,308   

Lexington Realty Trust (a)

     61,420           601,302   

New York REIT, Inc. (a)

     65,560           673,957   

Rayonier, Inc.

     7,240           225,454   

Regal Entertainment Group-Class A

     35,490           705,541   

Spirit Realty Capital, Inc.

     85,919           942,532   

Vornado Realty Trust

     5,370           536,785   

Weyerhaeuser Co.

     15,669           499,214   
       

 

 

 
          8,773,317   
       

 

 

 

Health Care - 11.4%

       

HCP, Inc.

     25,740           1,022,135   

Health Care REIT, Inc.

     9,091           567,006   

LTC Properties, Inc.

     21,540           794,610   

Medical Properties Trust, Inc.

     66,895           820,133   

Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc.

     21,340           729,614   

Senior Housing Properties Trust

     15,680           328,026   

Ventas, Inc.

     15,980           989,961   
       

 

 

 
          5,251,485   
       

 

 

 

Triple Net - 0.5%

       

EPR Properties

     3,970           201,200   
       

 

 

 
          14,226,002   
       

 

 

 

Retail - 21.1%

       

Regional Mall - 12.2%

       

General Growth Properties, Inc.

     13,560           319,338   

Glimcher Realty Trust

     8,590           116,309   

Macerich Co. (The)

     5,850           373,405   

Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust

     31,690           631,899   

Simon Property Group, Inc.

     18,090           2,974,358   

Taubman Centers, Inc.

     1,580           115,340   

Washington Prime Group, Inc.

     62,505           1,092,587   
       

 

 

 
          5,623,236   
       

 

 

 

Shopping Center/Other Retail - 8.9%

       

DDR Corp.

     48,423           810,117   

Federal Realty Investment Trust

     1,790           212,043   

Kite Realty Group Trust

     30,456           738,254   

Ramco-Gershenson Properties Trust

     47,481           771,566   

Regency Centers Corp.

     6,300           339,129   

Retail Opportunity Investments Corp.

     52,300           768,810   

Retail Properties of America, Inc.-Class A

     14,000           204,820   


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Weingarten Realty Investors

     7,220           227,430   
       

 

 

 
          4,072,169   
       

 

 

 
          9,695,405   
       

 

 

 

Residential - 18.3%

       

Multi-Family - 12.7%

       

Apartment Investment & Management Co.-Class A

     8,970           285,425   

Associated Estates Realty Corp.

     55,818           977,373   

AvalonBay Communities, Inc.

     3,680           518,770   

Brookfield Residential Properties, Inc. (b)

     11,543           218,047   

Camden Property Trust

     2,010           137,745   

Equity Residential

     13,250           815,935   

Essex Property Trust, Inc.

     2,270           405,763   

Meritage Homes Corp. (b)

     10,700           379,850   

Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc.

     13,230           868,549   

PulteGroup, Inc.

     18,720           330,595   

Sun Communities, Inc.

     14,015           707,758   

TRI Pointe Homes, Inc. (b)

     14,424           186,647   
       

 

 

 
          5,832,457   
       

 

 

 

Self Storage - 4.3%

       

CubeSmart

     24,000           431,520   

Extra Space Storage, Inc.

     4,700           242,379   

Public Storage

     6,870           1,139,321   

Sovran Self Storage, Inc.

     2,450           182,182   
       

 

 

 
          1,995,402   
       

 

 

 

Single Family - 0.9%

       

Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc.

     10,300           423,433   
       

 

 

 

Student Housing - 0.4%

       

American Campus Communities, Inc.

     4,400           160,380   
       

 

 

 
          8,411,672   
       

 

 

 

Lodging - 12.8%

       

Lodging - 12.8%

       

Ashford Hospitality Prime, Inc.

     45,792           697,412   

Ashford Hospitality Trust, Inc.

     66,919           683,912   

Chatham Lodging Trust

     31,610           729,559   

DiamondRock Hospitality Co.

     65,910           835,739   

FelCor Lodging Trust, Inc.

     35,610           333,309   

Hersha Hospitality Trust

     118,357           753,934   

Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.

     8,890           189,624   

Intrawest Resorts Holdings, Inc. (b)

     21,800           210,806   

Pebblebrook Hotel Trust

     12,830           479,072   

Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Inc.

     6,970           579,974   

Strategic Hotels & Resorts, Inc. (b)

     10,920           127,218   

Wyndham Worldwide Corp.

     3,080           250,281   
       

 

 

 
          5,870,840   
       

 

 

 

Office - 10.8%

       

Office - 10.8%

       

Boston Properties, Inc.

     9,149           1,059,088   

Columbia Property Trust, Inc.

     25,880           617,755   

Corporate Office Properties Trust

     5,950           153,034   

Cousins Properties, Inc.

     48,969           585,179   


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Franklin Street Properties Corp.

     8,890           99,746   

Government Properties Income Trust

     4,470           97,938   

Kilroy Realty Corp.

     5,490           326,326   

Parkway Properties, Inc./MD

     36,886           692,719   

SL Green Realty Corp.

     13,096           1,326,887   
       

 

 

 
          4,958,672   
       

 

 

 

Industrials - 3.9%

       

Industrial Warehouse Distribution - 3.9%

       

Granite Real Estate Investment Trust

     19,160           661,595   

ProLogis, Inc.

     11,972           451,344   

STAG Industrial, Inc.

     33,180           687,158   
       

 

 

 
          1,800,097   
       

 

 

 

Mortgage - 0.9%

       

Mortgage - 0.9%

       

Altisource Residential Corp.
(cost $527,824)

     18,086           434,064   
       

 

 

 

Financial: Other - 0.8%

       

Financial: Other - 0.8%

       

HFF, Inc.-Class A
(cost $392,088)

     12,220           353,769   
       

 

 

 

Total Common Stocks
(cost $40,806,539)

          45,750,521   
       

 

 

 
     Principal
Amount
(000)
          

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 0.3%

       

Time Deposit - 0.3%

       

State Street Time Deposit
0.01%, 10/01/14
(cost $138,553)

   $ 139           138,553   
       

 

 

 

Total Investments Before Security Lending Collateral for Securities Loaned 99.9%
(cost $40,945,092)

   

       45,889,074   
       

 

 

 
     Shares           

INVESTMENTS OF CASH COLLATERAL FOR SECURITIES LOANED - 2.9%

  

    

Investment Companies - 2.9%

       

AllianceBernstein Exchange Reserves-Class I,
0.04% (c)(d)
(cost $1,335,669)

     1,335,669           1,335,669   
       

 

 

 

Total Investments - 102.8%
(cost $42,280,761) (e)

          47,224,743   

Other assets less liabilities - (2.8)%

          (1,287,453
       

 

 

 

Net Assets - 100.0%

        $ 45,937,290   
       

 

 

 

 

(a) Represents entire or partial securities out on loan.
(b) Non-income producing security.


(c) To obtain a copy of the fund’s financial statements, please go to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov, or call AllianceBernstein at (800) 227-4618.
(d) Investment in affiliated money market mutual fund. The rate shown represents the 7-day yield as of period end.
(e) As of September 30, 2014, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $6,113,299 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(1,169,317), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $4,943,982.

Please note: The sector classifications presented herein are based on the sector categorization methodology of the Adviser.

Glossary:

 

REIT    -    Real Estate Investment Trust


AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

Real Estate Investment Portfolio

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized below.

 

   

Level 1—quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

   

Level 2—other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)

   

Level 3—significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

The fair value of debt instruments, such as bonds, and over-the-counter derivatives is generally based on market price quotations, recently executed market transactions (where observable) or industry recognized modeling techniques and are generally classified as Level 2. Pricing vendor inputs to Level 2 valuations may include quoted prices for similar investments in active markets, interest rate curves, coupon rates, currency rates, yield curves, option adjusted spreads, default rates, credit spreads and other unique security features in order to estimate the relevant cash flows which is then discounted to calculate fair values. If these inputs are unobservable and significant to the fair value, these investments will be classified as Level 3. In addition, non-agency rated investments are classified as Level 3.

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

Other fixed income investments, including non-U.S. government and corporate debt, are generally valued using quoted market prices, if available, which are typically impacted by current interest rates, maturity dates and any perceived credit risk of the issuer. Additionally, in the absence of quoted market prices, these inputs are used by pricing vendors to derive a valuation based upon industry or proprietary models which incorporate issuer specific data with relevant yield/spread comparisons with more widely quoted bonds with similar key characteristics. Those investments for which there are observable inputs are classified as Level 2. Where the inputs are not observable, the investments are classified as Level 3.

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2014:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Assets:

        

Common Stocks*

   $ 45,750,521      $ – 0  –    $ – 0  –    $ 45,750,521   

Short-Term Investments

     – 0  –      138,553        – 0  –      138,553   

Investments of Cash Collateral for Securities Loaned in Affiliated Money Market Fund

     1,335,669        – 0  –      – 0  –      1,335,669   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     47,086,190        138,553        – 0  –      47,224,743   

Other Financial Instruments**

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total+

   $     47,086,190      $     138,553      $             – 0  –    $     47,224,743   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

* See Portfolio of Investments for sector classifications.
** Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/depreciation on the instrument.
+ There were no transfers between any levels during the reporting period.

The Portfolio recognizes all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.


The Adviser has established a Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) which is responsible for overseeing the pricing and valuation of all securities held in the Portfolio. The Committee operates under pricing and valuation policies and procedures established by the Adviser and approved by the Board, including pricing policies which set forth the mechanisms and processes to be employed on a daily basis to implement these policies and procedures. In particular, the pricing policies describe how to determine market quotations for securities and other instruments. The Committee’s responsibilities include: 1) fair value and liquidity determinations (and oversight of any third parties to whom any responsibility for fair value and liquidity determinations is delegated), and 2) regular monitoring of the Adviser’s pricing and valuation policies and procedures and modification or enhancement of these policies and procedures (or recommendation of the modification of these policies and procedures) as the Committee believes appropriate.

The Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of the pricing policies by the Adviser’s Pricing Group (the “Pricing Group”) and a third party which performs certain pricing functions in accordance with the pricing policies. The Pricing Group is responsible for the oversight of the third party on a day-to-day basis. The Committee and the Pricing Group perform a series of activities to provide reasonable assurance of the accuracy of prices including: 1) periodic vendor due diligence meetings, review of methodologies, new developments and process at vendors, 2) daily compare of security valuation versus prior day for all securities that exceeded established thresholds, and 3) daily review of unpriced, stale, and variance reports with exceptions reviewed by senior management and the Committee.

In addition, several processes outside of the pricing process are used to monitor valuation issues including: 1) performance and performance attribution reports are monitored for anomalous impacts based upon benchmark performance, and 2) portfolio managers review all portfolios for performance and analytics (which are generated using the Adviser’s prices).


AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

Small Cap Growth Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

 

Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

COMMON STOCKS - 99.5%

       

Information Technology - 26.9%

       

Communications Equipment - 1.3%

       

Arista Networks, Inc. (a)(b)

     3,609         $ 318,783   

Ruckus Wireless, Inc. (a)

     60,350           806,276   
       

 

 

 
          1,125,059   
       

 

 

 

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components - 1.8%

       

InvenSense, Inc. (a)(b)

     37,589           741,631   

Zebra Technologies Corp.-Class A (a)

     11,134           790,180   
       

 

 

 
          1,531,811   
       

 

 

 

Internet Software & Services - 7.0%

       

CoStar Group, Inc. (a)

     4,305           669,600   

Dealertrack Technologies, Inc. (a)

     25,072           1,088,375   

Demandware, Inc. (a)

     3,810           194,005   

Envestnet, Inc. (a)

     23,805           1,071,225   

LogMeIn, Inc. (a)

     8,640           398,045   

Pandora Media, Inc. (a)

     26,122           631,108   

Shutterstock, Inc. (a)

     10,642           759,626   

Yelp, Inc. (a)

     8,818           601,828   

Zillow, Inc.-Class A (a)(b)

     5,910           685,501   
       

 

 

 
          6,099,313   
       

 

 

 

IT Services - 0.7%

       

VeriFone Systems, Inc. (a)

     18,060           620,903   
       

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 6.0%

       

Cavium, Inc. (a)

     20,607           1,024,786   

Intersil Corp.-Class A

     70,883           1,007,247   

Monolithic Power Systems, Inc.

     21,452           944,961   

Silicon Laboratories, Inc. (a)

     19,314           784,921   

Synaptics, Inc. (a)

     15,435           1,129,842   

Teradyne, Inc.

     17,969           348,419   
       

 

 

 
          5,240,176   
       

 

 

 

Software - 10.1%

       

A10 Networks, Inc. (a)

     34,959           318,476   

Aspen Technology, Inc. (a)

     30,264           1,141,558   

Fortinet, Inc. (a)

     51,270           1,295,337   

Guidewire Software, Inc. (a)

     18,209           807,387   

PTC, Inc. (a)

     35,084           1,294,600   

SolarWinds, Inc. (a)

     24,117           1,014,120   

SS&C Technologies Holdings, Inc. (a)

     21,417           939,992   

Tableau Software, Inc.-Class A (a)

     11,190           812,953   

Ultimate Software Group, Inc. (The) (a)

     8,654           1,224,628   
       

 

 

 
          8,849,051   
       

 

 

 
          23,466,313   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Health Care - 23.3%

       

Biotechnology - 6.0%

       

Cubist Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)

     13,438           891,477   

Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)

     11,211           435,323   

Karyopharm Therapeutics, Inc. (a)(b)

     9,366           327,248   

KYTHERA Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)

     9,410           308,271   

NPS Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (a)

     24,857           646,282   

Otonomy, Inc. (a)

     14,173           340,152   

Puma Biotechnology, Inc. (a)

     4,140           987,680   

Sage Therapeutics, Inc. (a)

     5,698           179,487   

Synageva BioPharma Corp. (a)

     6,035           415,087   

TESARO, Inc. (a)

     14,265           384,014   

Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical, Inc. (a)

     6,060           342,996   
       

 

 

 
          5,258,017   
       

 

 

 

Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 5.7%

       

Align Technology, Inc. (a)

     12,533           647,705   

Cardiovascular Systems, Inc. (a)

     21,844           516,174   

HeartWare International, Inc. (a)

     10,633           825,440   

Insulet Corp. (a)

     18,813           693,259   

K2M Group Holdings, Inc. (a)

     29,135           420,418   

LDR Holding Corp. (a)

     25,755           801,753   

Sirona Dental Systems, Inc. (a)

     10,654           816,949   

Tandem Diabetes Care, Inc. (a)(b)

     21,671           290,825   
       

 

 

 
          5,012,523   
       

 

 

 

Health Care Providers & Services - 4.7%

       

Acadia Healthcare Co., Inc. (a)

     31,191           1,512,764   

Mednax, Inc. (a)

     7,746           424,636   

Premier, Inc.-Class A (a)

     24,090           791,597   

Team Health Holdings, Inc. (a)

     23,180           1,344,208   
       

 

 

 
          4,073,205   
       

 

 

 

Life Sciences Tools & Services - 2.2%

       

ICON PLC (a)

     14,195           812,380   

PAREXEL International Corp. (a)

     16,913           1,067,041   
       

 

 

 
          1,879,421   
       

 

 

 

Pharmaceuticals - 4.7%

       

Akorn, Inc. (a)

     43,473           1,576,766   

Aratana Therapeutics, Inc. (a)

     24,919           250,187   

GW Pharmaceuticals PLC (ADR) (a)(b)

     4,592           371,263   

Jazz Pharmaceuticals PLC (a)

     4,986           800,552   

Pacira Pharmaceuticals, Inc./DE (a)

     9,525           923,163   

Revance Therapeutics, Inc. (a)

     10,773           208,242   
       

 

 

 
          4,130,173   
       

 

 

 
          20,353,339   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Industrials - 19.1%

       

Aerospace & Defense - 2.0%

       

Hexcel Corp. (a)

     35,415           1,405,976   

KEYW Holding Corp. (The) (a)

     32,488           359,642   
       

 

 

 
          1,765,618   
       

 

 

 

Construction & Engineering - 1.4%

       

Dycom Industries, Inc. (a)

     39,315           1,207,364   
       

 

 

 

Industrial Conglomerates - 1.5%

       

Carlisle Cos., Inc.

     16,557           1,330,852   
       

 

 

 

Machinery - 8.2%

       

Actuant Corp.-Class A

     23,836           727,475   

Chart Industries, Inc. (a)

     11,886           726,591   

IDEX Corp.

     18,029           1,304,759   

Lincoln Electric Holdings, Inc.

     17,758           1,227,699   

Middleby Corp. (The) (a)

     13,061           1,151,066   

RBC Bearings, Inc.

     14,493           821,753   

Valmont Industries, Inc. (b)

     8,707           1,174,835   
       

 

 

 
          7,134,178   
       

 

 

 

Marine - 1.5%

       

Kirby Corp. (a)

     11,514           1,356,925   
       

 

 

 

Professional Services - 1.5%

       

TrueBlue, Inc. (a)

     50,997           1,288,184   
       

 

 

 

Road & Rail - 1.5%

       

Genesee & Wyoming, Inc.-Class A (a)

     13,657           1,301,649   
       

 

 

 

Trading Companies & Distributors - 1.5%

       

H&E Equipment Services, Inc.

     490           19,737   

United Rentals, Inc. (a)

     11,624           1,291,426   
       

 

 

 
          1,311,163   
       

 

 

 
          16,695,933   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Discretionary - 15.3%

       

Distributors - 2.7%

       

LKQ Corp. (a)

     41,617           1,106,596   

Pool Corp.

     22,692           1,223,553   
       

 

 

 
          2,330,149   
       

 

 

 

Diversified Consumer Services - 2.7%

       

Bright Horizons Family Solutions, Inc. (a)

     22,024           926,330   

Capella Education Co.

     22,729           1,422,835   
       

 

 

 
          2,349,165   
       

 

 

 

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 2.4%

       

Buffalo Wild Wings, Inc. (a)

     9,736           1,307,253   

Zoe’s Kitchen, Inc. (a)(b)

     24,449           752,051   
       

 

 

 
          2,059,304   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Household Durables - 1.1%

       

Tempur Sealy International, Inc. (a)

     16,992           954,441   
       

 

 

 

Internet & Catalog Retail - 1.7%

       

HomeAway, Inc. (a)

     20,966           744,293   

zulily, Inc.-Class A (a)(b)

     20,576           779,624   
       

 

 

 
          1,523,917   
       

 

 

 

Media - 1.0%

       

National CineMedia, Inc.

     62,888           912,505   
       

 

 

 

Multiline Retail - 1.0%

       

Tuesday Morning Corp. (a)

     44,400           861,582   
       

 

 

 

Specialty Retail - 2.7%

       

Cabela’s, Inc. (a)

     15,501           913,009   

Five Below, Inc. (a)

     35,707           1,414,354   
       

 

 

 
          2,327,363   
       

 

 

 
          13,318,426   
       

 

 

 

Financials - 6.0%

       

Banks - 4.5%

       

City National Corp./CA

     9,999           756,624   

Iberiabank Corp.

     13,346           834,259   

Opus Bank (a)

     7,202           220,597   

Signature Bank/New York NY (a)

     9,039           1,012,910   

SVB Financial Group (a)

     10,177           1,140,740   
       

 

 

 
          3,965,130   
       

 

 

 

Capital Markets - 1.5%

       

Artisan Partners Asset Management, Inc.-Class A

     7,340           382,047   

Stifel Financial Corp. (a)

     19,597           918,904   
       

 

 

 
          1,300,951   
       

 

 

 
          5,266,081   
       

 

 

 

Energy - 4.7%

       

Energy Equipment & Services - 2.3%

       

Dril-Quip, Inc. (a)

     10,448           934,051   

Superior Energy Services, Inc.

     31,394           1,031,921   
       

 

 

 
          1,965,972   
       

 

 

 

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 2.4%

       

Laredo Petroleum, Inc. (a)

     30,474           682,922   

Matador Resources Co. (a)

     29,647           766,375   

Oasis Petroleum, Inc. (a)

     15,990           668,542   
       

 

 

 
          2,117,839   
       

 

 

 
          4,083,811   
       

 

 

 

Materials - 1.9%

       

Chemicals - 1.9%

       

PolyOne Corp.

     46,391           1,650,592   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Consumer Staples - 1.5%

       

Food & Staples Retailing - 1.5%

       

Chefs’ Warehouse, Inc. (The) (a)

     30,315           492,922   

Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc. (a)

     29,509           857,826   
       

 

 

 
          1,350,748   
       

 

 

 

Telecommunication Services - 0.8%

       

Wireless Telecommunication Services - 0.8%

       

RingCentral, Inc.-Class A (a)

     55,688           707,794   
       

 

 

 

Total Common Stocks
(cost $77,220,348)

          86,893,037   
       

 

 

 
     Principal
Amount
(000)
          

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 0.6%

       

Time Deposit - 0.6%

       

State Street Time Deposit 0.01%, 10/01/14
(cost $534,935)

   U.S.$ 535           534,935   
       

 

 

 

Total Investments Before Security Lending Collateral for
Securities Loaned - 100.1%
(cost $77,755,283)

          87,427,972   
       

 

 

 
     Shares           

INVESTMENTS OF CASH COLLATERAL FOR SECURITIES LOANED - 5.4%

       

Investment Companies - 5.4%

       

AllianceBernstein Exchange Reserves-Class I,
0.04% (c)(d)
(cost $4,738,078)

     4,738,078           4,738,078   
       

 

 

 

Total Investments - 105.5%
(cost $82,493,361) (e)

          92,166,050   

Other assets less liabilities - (5.5)%

          (4,826,826
       

 

 

 

Net Assets - 100.0%

        $ 87,339,224   
       

 

 

 

 

(a) Non-income producing security.
(b) Represents entire or partial securities out on loan.
(c) To obtain a copy of the fund’s financial statements, please go to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov, or call AllianceBernstein at (800) 227-4618.
(d) Investment in affiliated money market mutual fund. The rate shown represents the 7-day yield as of period end.
(e) As of September 30, 2014, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $12,070,133 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(2,397,444), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $9,672,689.

Please note: The sector classifications presented herein are based on the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) which was developed by Morgan Stanley Capital International and Standard & Poor’s. The components are divided into sector, industry group, and industry sub-indices as classified by the GICS for each of the market capitalization indices in the broad market.

Glossary:

 

ADR    -    American Depositary Receipt


AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

Small Cap Growth Portfolio

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized below.

 

   

Level 1—quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

   

Level 2—other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)

   

Level 3—significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

The fair value of debt instruments, such as bonds, and over-the-counter derivatives is generally based on market price quotations, recently executed market transactions (where observable) or industry recognized modeling techniques and are generally classified as Level 2. Pricing vendor inputs to Level 2 valuations may include quoted prices for similar investments in active markets, interest rate curves, coupon rates, currency rates, yield curves, option adjusted spreads, default rates, credit spreads and other unique security features in order to estimate the relevant cash flows which is then discounted to calculate fair values. If these inputs are unobservable and significant to the fair value, these investments will be classified as Level 3. In addition, non-agency rated investments are classified as Level 3.

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

Other fixed income investments, including non-U.S. government and corporate debt, are generally valued using quoted market prices, if available, which are typically impacted by current interest rates, maturity dates and any perceived credit risk of the issuer. Additionally, in the absence of quoted market prices, these inputs are used by pricing vendors to derive a valuation based upon industry or proprietary models which incorporate issuer specific data with relevant yield/spread comparisons with more widely quoted bonds with similar key characteristics. Those investments for which there are observable inputs are classified as Level 2. Where the inputs are not observable, the investments are classified as Level 3.

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2014:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Assets:

        

Common Stocks*

   $ 86,893,037      $ – 0  –    $ – 0  –    $ 86,893,037   

Short-Term Investments

     – 0  –      534,935        – 0  –      534,935   

Investments of Cash Collateral for Securities Loaned in Affiliated Money Market Fund

     4,738,078        – 0  –      – 0  –      4,738,078   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     91,631,115        534,935        – 0  –      92,166,050   

Other Financial Instruments**

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total+

   $     91,631,115      $     534,935      $             – 0  –    $     92,166,050   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

* See Portfolio of Investments for sector classifications.
** Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/depreciation on the instrument.
+ There were no transfers between any levels during the reporting period.

The Portfolio recognizes all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.


AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

Small/Mid Cap Value Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

 

Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

COMMON STOCKS - 99.0%

       

Financials - 29.2%

       

Banks - 9.4%

       

Associated Banc-Corp

     333,080         $ 5,802,254   

Comerica, Inc.

     179,310           8,940,397   

First Niagara Financial Group, Inc.

     596,090           4,965,430   

Huntington Bancshares, Inc./OH

     874,310           8,507,036   

PacWest Bancorp

     108,748           4,483,680   

Popular, Inc. (a)

     251,060           7,389,951   

Susquehanna Bancshares, Inc.

     623,814           6,238,140   

Webster Financial Corp.

     162,850           4,745,449   

Zions Bancorporation

     265,840           7,725,310   
       

 

 

 
          58,797,647   
       

 

 

 

Capital Markets - 1.1%

       

E*Trade Financial Corp. (a)

     296,260           6,692,513   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Finance - 1.0%

       

SLM Corp.

     757,530           6,484,457   
       

 

 

 

Insurance - 9.4%

       

American Financial Group, Inc./OH

     160,700           9,302,923   

Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd.

     222,700           9,524,879   

Assurant, Inc.

     94,480           6,075,064   

CNO Financial Group, Inc.

     516,120           8,753,395   

PartnerRe Ltd.

     85,020           9,342,848   

Unum Group

     207,060           7,118,723   

Validus Holdings Ltd.

     229,212           8,971,358   
       

 

 

 
          59,089,190   
       

 

 

 

Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs) - 7.9%

       

Camden Property Trust

     76,390           5,235,007   

DDR Corp.

     355,540           5,948,184   

DiamondRock Hospitality Co.

     587,830           7,453,684   

LTC Properties, Inc.

     195,280           7,203,879   

Medical Properties Trust, Inc.

     579,110           7,099,889   

Mid-America Apartment Communities, Inc.

     87,670           5,755,536   

Parkway Properties, Inc./MD

     396,730           7,450,589   

STAG Industrial, Inc.

     181,590           3,760,729   
       

 

 

 
          49,907,497   
       

 

 

 

Thrifts & Mortgage Finance - 0.4%

       

Essent Group Ltd. (a)

     117,874           2,523,682   
       

 

 

 
          183,494,986   
       

 

 

 

Information Technology - 21.8%

       

Communications Equipment - 2.7%

       

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

     582,870           6,335,797   

Finisar Corp. (a)

     191,290           3,181,153   

Harris Corp.

     107,620           7,145,968   
       

 

 

 
          16,662,918   
       

 

 

 

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components - 8.7%

       

Anixter International, Inc.

     55,960           4,747,646   

Arrow Electronics, Inc. (a)

     162,000           8,966,700   

Avnet, Inc.

     207,550           8,613,325   

CDW Corp./DE

     215,460           6,690,033   


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Insight Enterprises, Inc. (a)

     245,514           5,555,982   

Jabil Circuit, Inc.

     375,080           7,565,364   

TTM Technologies, Inc. (a)

     551,922           3,758,589   

Vishay Intertechnology, Inc.

     628,210           8,977,121   
       

 

 

 
          54,874,760   
       

 

 

 

IT Services - 4.0%

       

Amdocs Ltd.

     161,700           7,418,796   

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.

     337,780           7,904,052   

Convergys Corp.

     202,870           3,615,143   

Genpact Ltd. (a)

     372,190           6,074,141   
       

 

 

 
          25,012,132   
       

 

 

 

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 3.6%

       

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (a)(b)

     931,280           3,175,665   

Entegris, Inc. (a)

     353,337           4,063,375   

Lam Research Corp.

     114,510           8,553,897   

Teradyne, Inc.

     364,190           7,061,644   
       

 

 

 
          22,854,581   
       

 

 

 

Software - 1.5%

       

Electronic Arts, Inc. (a)

     259,810           9,251,834   
       

 

 

 

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 1.3%

       

NCR Corp. (a)

     245,240           8,193,468   
       

 

 

 
          136,849,693   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Discretionary - 15.9%

       

Auto Components - 4.8%

       

Dana Holding Corp.

     325,470           6,239,260   

Lear Corp.

     89,050           7,694,811   

Tenneco, Inc. (a)

     159,370           8,336,645   

TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. (a)

     78,830           7,981,537   
       

 

 

 
          30,252,253   
       

 

 

 

Automobiles - 0.8%

       

Thor Industries, Inc.

     96,840           4,987,260   
       

 

 

 

Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure - 2.2%

       

Bloomin’ Brands, Inc. (a)

     449,149           8,237,392   

DineEquity, Inc.

     66,788           5,449,233   
       

 

 

 
          13,686,625   
       

 

 

 

Household Durables - 2.9%

       

Helen of Troy Ltd. (a)

     102,720           5,394,854   

Meritage Homes Corp. (a)

     197,400           7,007,700   

PulteGroup, Inc.

     348,140           6,148,153   
       

 

 

 
          18,550,707   
       

 

 

 

Specialty Retail - 4.6%

       

Brown Shoe Co., Inc.

     184,330           5,000,873   

Children’s Place, Inc. (The)

     149,459           7,123,216   

GameStop Corp.-Class A

     171,280           7,056,736   


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Office Depot, Inc. (a)

     1,856,510           9,542,461   
       

 

 

 
          28,723,286   
       

 

 

 

Textiles, Apparel & Luxury Goods - 0.6%

       

CROCS, Inc. (a)

     286,600           3,605,428   
       

 

 

 
          99,805,559   
       

 

 

 

Industrials - 12.3%

       

Aerospace & Defense - 1.3%

       

Spirit Aerosystems Holdings, Inc.-Class A (a)

     213,470           8,124,668   
       

 

 

 

Construction & Engineering - 3.9%

       

Aecom Technology Corp. (a)

     195,690           6,604,538   

Granite Construction, Inc.

     155,690           4,952,499   

Tutor Perini Corp. (a)

     221,890           5,857,896   

URS Corp.

     127,340           7,336,057   
       

 

 

 
          24,750,990   
       

 

 

 

Electrical Equipment - 0.6%

       

General Cable Corp.

     253,710           3,825,947   
       

 

 

 

Machinery - 3.0%

       

ITT Corp.

     171,680           7,715,299   

Kennametal, Inc.

     132,960           5,492,578   

Terex Corp.

     167,270           5,314,168   
       

 

 

 
          18,522,045   
       

 

 

 

Road & Rail - 2.4%

       

Con-way, Inc.

     135,740           6,447,650   

Ryder System, Inc.

     96,170           8,652,415   
       

 

 

 
          15,100,065   
       

 

 

 

Trading Companies & Distributors - 1.1%

       

WESCO International, Inc. (a)

     83,950           6,569,927   
       

 

 

 
          76,893,642   
       

 

 

 

Utilities - 6.3%

       

Electric Utilities - 2.4%

       

PNM Resources, Inc.

     291,630           7,264,503   

Westar Energy, Inc.

     226,475           7,727,327   
       

 

 

 
          14,991,830   
       

 

 

 

Gas Utilities - 3.9%

       

Atmos Energy Corp.

     143,510           6,845,427   

Southwest Gas Corp.

     171,100           8,312,038   

UGI Corp.

     282,000           9,613,380   
       

 

 

 
          24,770,845   
       

 

 

 
          39,762,675   
       

 

 

 

Materials - 4.8%

       

Chemicals - 1.8%

       

A Schulman, Inc.

     125,740           4,546,758   

Huntsman Corp.

     244,890           6,364,691   
       

 

 

 
          10,911,449   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Containers & Packaging - 1.7%

       

Avery Dennison Corp.

     130,130           5,810,305   

Graphic Packaging Holding Co. (a)

     395,680           4,918,302   
       

 

 

 
          10,728,607   
       

 

 

 

Metals & Mining - 1.3%

       

Steel Dynamics, Inc.

     358,350           8,102,294   
       

 

 

 
          29,742,350   
       

 

 

 

Health Care - 3.9%

       

Biotechnology - 0.3%

       

Theravance, Inc. (b)

     98,480           1,683,023   
       

 

 

 

Health Care Providers & Services - 3.6%

       

Health Net, Inc./CA (a)

     117,710           5,427,608   

LifePoint Hospitals, Inc. (a)

     122,745           8,492,727   

Molina Healthcare, Inc. (a)

     96,810           4,095,063   

WellCare Health Plans, Inc. (a)

     78,900           4,760,826   
       

 

 

 
          22,776,224   
       

 

 

 
          24,459,247   
       

 

 

 

Energy - 3.6%

       

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 3.6%

       

Bill Barrett Corp. (a)

     380,720           8,391,069   

Rosetta Resources, Inc. (a)

     179,840           8,013,670   

SM Energy Co.

     77,840           6,071,520   
       

 

 

 
          22,476,259   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Staples - 1.2%

       

Food Products - 1.2%

       

Dean Foods Co.

     581,020           7,698,515   
       

 

 

 

Total Common Stocks
(cost $531,444,010)

          621,182,926   
       

 

 

 

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 1.2%

       
     Principal
Amount
(000)
          

Time Deposit - 1.2%

       

State street Time Deposit
0.01%, 10/01/14
(cost $7,392,691)

   $ 7,393           7,392,691   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Total Investments Before Security Lending Collateral for Securities Loaned - 100.2%
(cost $538,836,701)

          628,575,617   
       

 

 

 

INVESTMENTS OF CASH COLLATERAL FOR SECURITIES LOANED - 0.8%

       

Investment Companies - 0.8%

       

AllianceBernstein Exchange Reserves-Class I,
0.04% (c)(d)
(cost $5,289,560)

     5,289,560           5,289,560   
       

 

 

 

Total Investments - 101.0%
(cost $544,126,261) (e)

          633,865,177   

Other assets less liabilities - (1.0)%

          (6,296,205
       

 

 

 

Net Assets - 100.0%

        $ 627,568,972   
       

 

 

 

 

(a) Non-income producing security.
(b) Represents entire or partial securities out on loan.
(c) To obtain a copy of the fund’s financial statements, please go to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov, or call AllianceBernstein at (800) 227-4618.
(d) Investment in affiliated money market mutual fund. The rate shown represents the 7-day yield as of period end.
(e) As of September 30, 2014, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $114,263,642 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(24,524,726), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $89,738,916.

Please note: The sector classifications presented herein are based on the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) which was developed by Morgan Stanley Capital International and Standard & Poor’s. The components are divided into sector, industry group, and industry sub-indices as classified by the GICS for each of the market capitalization indices in the broad market.


AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

Small/Mid Cap Value Portfolio

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized below.

 

   

Level 1—quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

   

Level 2—other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)

   

Level 3—significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

The fair value of debt instruments, such as bonds, and over-the-counter derivatives is generally based on market price quotations, recently executed market transactions (where observable) or industry recognized modeling techniques and are generally classified as Level 2. Pricing vendor inputs to Level 2 valuations may include quoted prices for similar investments in active markets, interest rate curves, coupon rates, currency rates, yield curves, option adjusted spreads, default rates, credit spreads and other unique security features in order to estimate the relevant cash flows which is then discounted to calculate fair values. If these inputs are unobservable and significant to the fair value, these investments will be classified as Level 3. In addition, non-agency rated investments are classified as Level 3.

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

Other fixed income investments, including non-U.S. government and corporate debt, are generally valued using quoted market prices, if available, which are typically impacted by current interest rates, maturity dates and any perceived credit risk of the issuer. Additionally, in the absence of quoted market prices, these inputs are used by pricing vendors to derive a valuation based upon industry or proprietary models which incorporate issuer specific data with relevant yield/spread comparisons with more widely quoted bonds with similar key characteristics. Those investments for which there are observable inputs are classified as Level 2. Where the inputs are not observable, the investments are classified as Level 3.

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2014:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Assets:

        

Common Stocks*

   $ 621,182,926      $ – 0  –    $  – 0  –    $ 621,182,926   

Short-Term Investments

     – 0  –      7,392,691        – 0  –      7,392,691   

Investments of Cash Collateral for Securities Loaned in Affiliated Money Market Fund

     5,289,560        – 0  –      – 0  –      5,289,560   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     626,472,486        7,392,691        – 0  –      633,865,177   

Other Financial Instruments**

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total+

   $     626,472,486      $     7,392,691      $             – 0  –    $     633,865,177   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

* See Portfolio of Investments for sector classifications.
** Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/depreciation on the instrument.
+ There were no transfers between any levels during the reporting period.

The Portfolios recognize all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.

The Adviser has established a Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) which is responsible for overseeing the pricing and valuation of all securities held in the Portfolio. The Committee operates under pricing and valuation policies and procedures established by the Adviser and approved by the Board, including pricing policies which set forth the mechanisms and processes to be employed on a daily basis to implement these policies and procedures. In particular, the pricing policies describe how to determine market quotations for securities and other instruments. The Committee’s responsibilities include: 1) fair value and liquidity determinations (and oversight of any third parties to whom any responsibility for fair value and liquidity determinations is delegated), and 2) regular monitoring of the Adviser’s pricing and valuation policies and procedures and modification or enhancement of these policies and procedures (or recommendation of the modification of these policies and procedures) as the Committee believes appropriate.

The Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of the pricing policies by the Adviser’s Pricing Group (the “Pricing Group”) and a third party which performs certain pricing functions in accordance with the pricing policies. The Pricing Group is responsible for the oversight of the third party on a day-to-day basis. The Committee and the Pricing Group perform a series of activities to provide reasonable assurance of the accuracy of prices including: 1) periodic vendor due diligence meetings, review of methodologies, new developments and process at vendors, 2) daily compare of security valuation versus prior day for all securities that exceeded established thresholds, and 3) daily review of unpriced, stale, and variance reports with exceptions reviewed by senior management and the Committee.

In addition, several processes outside of the pricing process are used to monitor valuation issues including: 1) performance and performance attribution reports are monitored for anomalous impacts based upon benchmark performance, and 2) portfolio managers review all portfolios for performance and analytics (which are generated using the Adviser’s prices).


AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

Value Portfolio

Portfolio of Investments

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

 

Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

COMMON STOCKS - 98.6%

       

Financials - 28.2%

       

Banks - 10.7%

       

Bank of America Corp.

     212,700         $ 3,626,535   

Citigroup, Inc.

     40,100           2,077,982   

Comerica, Inc.

     16,000           797,760   

Fifth Third Bancorp

     19,800           396,396   

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

     37,200           2,240,928   

Regions Financial Corp.

     36,700           368,468   

Wells Fargo & Co.

     61,300           3,179,631   
       

 

 

 
          12,687,700   
       

 

 

 

Capital Markets - 0.4%

       

State Street Corp.

     7,300           537,353   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Finance - 4.1%

       

Capital One Financial Corp.

     25,700           2,097,634   

Discover Financial Services

     27,300           1,757,847   

SLM Corp.

     111,200           951,872   
       

 

 

 
          4,807,353   
       

 

 

 

Diversified Financial Services - 1.9%

       

Berkshire Hathaway, Inc.-Class B (a)

     8,100           1,118,934   

Voya Financial, Inc.

     28,800           1,126,080   
       

 

 

 
          2,245,014   
       

 

 

 

Insurance - 11.1%

       

Allstate Corp. (The)

     20,000           1,227,400   

American Financial Group, Inc./OH

     21,900           1,267,791   

American International Group, Inc.

     41,900           2,263,438   

Aon PLC

     16,000           1,402,720   

Aspen Insurance Holdings Ltd.

     8,000           342,160   

Assurant, Inc.

     15,300           983,790   

Chubb Corp. (The)

     13,800           1,256,904   

Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. (The)

     10,400           638,768   

Lincoln National Corp.

     25,600           1,371,648   

PartnerRe Ltd.

     13,900           1,527,471   

Travelers Cos., Inc. (The)

     7,600           713,944   

Unum Group

     3,900           134,082   
       

 

 

 
          13,130,116   
       

 

 

 
          33,407,536   
       

 

 

 

Information Technology - 13.7%

       

Communications Equipment - 2.3%

       

Brocade Communications Systems, Inc.

     109,800           1,193,526   

Cisco Systems, Inc.

     22,000           553,740   

Harris Corp.

     15,400           1,022,560   
       

 

 

 
          2,769,826   
       

 

 

 

Electronic Equipment, Instruments & Components - 0.3%

       

Arrow Electronics, Inc. (a)

     7,400           409,590   
       

 

 

 

IT Services - 1.8%

       

Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.

     14,300           334,620   

Xerox Corp.

     131,200           1,735,776   
       

 

 

 
          2,070,396   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment - 3.3%

       

Applied Materials, Inc.

     47,300           1,022,153   

Intel Corp.

     55,600           1,935,992   

Micron Technology, Inc. (a)

     28,600           979,836   
       

 

 

 
          3,937,981   
       

 

 

 

Software - 3.5%

       

Electronic Arts, Inc. (a)

     42,400           1,509,864   

Microsoft Corp.

     56,600           2,623,976   
       

 

 

 
          4,133,840   
       

 

 

 

Technology Hardware, Storage & Peripherals - 2.5%

       

Hewlett-Packard Co.

     82,400           2,922,728   
       

 

 

 
          16,244,361   
       

 

 

 

Energy - 13.3%

       

Energy Equipment & Services - 1.9%

       

Halliburton Co.

     22,400           1,445,024   

Nabors Industries Ltd.

     25,100           571,276   

RPC, Inc.

     12,600           276,696   
       

 

 

 
          2,292,996   
       

 

 

 

Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels - 11.4%

       

Chesapeake Energy Corp.

     8,500           195,415   

Chevron Corp.

     15,700           1,873,324   

Exxon Mobil Corp.

     44,500           4,185,225   

Hess Corp.

     24,000           2,263,680   

Marathon Oil Corp.

     8,200           308,238   

Murphy Oil Corp.

     16,700           950,397   

Occidental Petroleum Corp.

     24,200           2,326,830   

SM Energy Co.

     3,500           273,000   

Valero Energy Corp.

     24,400           1,128,988   
       

 

 

 
          13,505,097   
       

 

 

 
          15,798,093   
       

 

 

 

Health Care - 12.7%

       

Biotechnology - 1.2%

       

Gilead Sciences, Inc. (a)

     12,400           1,319,980   

Theravance, Inc. (b)

     5,400           92,286   
       

 

 

 
          1,412,266   
       

 

 

 

Health Care Equipment & Supplies - 0.8%

       

Medtronic, Inc.

     16,000           991,200   
       

 

 

 

Health Care Providers & Services - 3.9%

       

Aetna, Inc.

     19,000           1,539,000   

UnitedHealth Group, Inc.

     8,500           733,125   

WellPoint, Inc.

     19,300           2,308,666   
       

 

 

 
          4,580,791   
       

 

 

 

Pharmaceuticals - 6.8%

       

Johnson & Johnson

     28,300           3,016,497   

Merck & Co., Inc.

     23,900           1,416,792   


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Pfizer, Inc.

     122,400           3,619,368   
       

 

 

 
          8,052,657   
       

 

 

 
          15,036,914   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Discretionary - 12.0%

       

Auto Components - 1.8%

       

Lear Corp.

     7,300           630,793   

Magna International, Inc. (New York)-Class A

     15,700           1,490,087   
       

 

 

 
          2,120,880   
       

 

 

 

Automobiles - 1.3%

       

Ford Motor Co.

     107,200           1,585,488   
       

 

 

 

Household Durables - 0.7%

       

PulteGroup, Inc.

     46,200           815,892   
       

 

 

 

Media - 2.8%

       

Liberty Global PLC - Series C (a)

     31,700           1,300,175   

Time Warner, Inc.

     10,600           797,226   

Twenty-First Century Fox, Inc.-Class A

     33,700           1,155,573   
       

 

 

 
          3,252,974   
       

 

 

 

Multiline Retail - 2.3%

       

Dillard’s, Inc.-Class A

     2,500           272,450   

Dollar General Corp. (a)

     17,400           1,063,314   

Macy’s, Inc.

     23,800           1,384,684   
       

 

 

 
          2,720,448   
       

 

 

 

Specialty Retail - 3.1%

       

Foot Locker, Inc.

     20,600           1,146,390   

GameStop Corp.-Class A

     30,300           1,248,360   

Gap, Inc. (The)

     8,500           354,365   

Office Depot, Inc. (a)

     190,100           977,114   
       

 

 

 
          3,726,229   
       

 

 

 
          14,221,911   
       

 

 

 

Utilities - 5.4%

       

Electric Utilities - 1.7%

       

Edison International

     35,600           1,990,752   
       

 

 

 

Gas Utilities - 1.8%

       

Atmos Energy Corp.

     22,900           1,092,330   

UGI Corp.

     31,650           1,078,949   
       

 

 

 
          2,171,279   
       

 

 

 

Independent Power Producers & Energy Traders - 1.2%

       

Calpine Corp. (a)

     46,000           998,200   

NRG Energy, Inc.

     12,800           390,144   
       

 

 

 
          1,388,344   
       

 

 

 

Multi-Utilities - 0.7%

       

CenterPoint Energy, Inc.

     32,600           797,722   
       

 

 

 
          6,348,097   
       

 

 

 


Company

   Shares        U.S. $ Value  

Industrials - 5.3%

       

Aerospace & Defense - 0.8%

       

Northrop Grumman Corp.

     6,700           882,792   
       

 

 

 

Airlines - 0.8%

       

Delta Air Lines, Inc.

     25,300           914,595   
       

 

 

 

Industrial Conglomerates - 1.1%

       

General Electric Co.

     52,700           1,350,174   
       

 

 

 

Machinery - 2.6%

       

Caterpillar, Inc.

     10,000           990,300   

Dover Corp.

     11,500           923,795   

ITT Corp.

     20,800           934,752   

Parker-Hannifin Corp.

     2,000           228,300   
       

 

 

 
          3,077,147   
       

 

 

 
          6,224,708   
       

 

 

 

Telecommunication Services - 2.9%

       

Diversified Telecommunication Services - 2.1%

       

AT&T, Inc.

     70,400           2,480,896   
       

 

 

 

Wireless Telecommunication Services - 0.8%

       

Vodafone Group PLC (Sponsored ADR)

     29,500           970,255   
       

 

 

 
          3,451,151   
       

 

 

 

Consumer Staples - 2.6%

       

Beverages - 0.1%

       

Molson Coors Brewing Co.-Class B

     1,600           119,104   
       

 

 

 

Food & Staples Retailing - 1.9%

       

CVS Health Corp.

     12,200           970,998   

Kroger Co. (The)

     23,900           1,242,800   
       

 

 

 
          2,213,798   
       

 

 

 

Household Products - 0.6%

       

Procter & Gamble Co. (The)

     8,500           711,790   
       

 

 

 
          3,044,692   
       

 

 

 

Materials - 2.5%

       

Chemicals - 2.3%

       

CF Industries Holdings, Inc.

     725           202,435   

Eastman Chemical Co.

     11,200           905,968   

LyondellBasell Industries NV-Class A

     15,400           1,673,364   
       

 

 

 
          2,781,767   
       

 

 

 

Metals & Mining - 0.2%

       

Alcoa, Inc.

     14,100           226,869   
       

 

 

 
          3,008,636   
       

 

 

 

Total Common Stocks
(cost $88,495,035)

          116,786,099   
       

 

 

 


     Principal
Amount
(000)
       U.S. $ Value  

SHORT-TERM INVESTMENTS - 0.1%

       

Time Deposit - 0.1%

       

State Street Time Deposit
0.01%, 10/01/14
(cost $100,505)

   $ 101           100,505   
       

 

 

 

Total Investments Before Security Lending Collateral for
Securities Loaned - 98.7%
(cost $88,595,540)

    

       116,886,604   
       

 

 

 
     Shares           

INVESTMENTS OF CASH COLLATERAL FOR SECURITIES LOANED - 0.1%

       

Investment Companies - 0.1%

       

AllianceBernstein Exchange Reserves-Class I,
0.04% (c)(d)
(cost $98,550)

     98,550           98,550   
       

 

 

 

Total Investments - 98.8%
(cost $88,694,090) (e)

          116,985,154   

Other assets less liabilities - 1.2%

  

       1,422,040   
       

 

 

 

Net Assets - 100.0%

        $ 118,407,194   
       

 

 

 

 

(a) Non-income producing security.
(b) Represents entire or partial securities out on loan.
(c) Investment in affiliated money market mutual fund. The rate shown represents the 7-day yield as of period end.
(d) To obtain a copy of the fund’s financial statements, please go to the Securities and Exchange Commission’s website at www.sec.gov, or call AllianceBernstein at (800) 227-4618.
(e) As of September 30, 2014, the cost basis of investment securities owned was substantially identical for both book and tax purposes. Gross unrealized appreciation of investments was $29,344,995 and gross unrealized depreciation of investments was $(1,053,931), resulting in net unrealized appreciation of $28,291,064.

Please note: The sector classifications presented herein are based on the Global Industry Classification Standard (GICS) which was developed by Morgan Stanley Capital International and Standard & Poor’s. The components are divided into sector, industry group, and industry sub-indices as classified by the GICS for each of the market capitalization indices in the broad market.

Glossary:

 

ADR    -    American Depositary Receipt


AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

Value Portfolio

September 30, 2014 (unaudited)

In accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio would receive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. U.S. GAAP establishes a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fair value measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability (including those valued based on their market values). Inputs may be observable or unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability. Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market data obtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on the best information available in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are significant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized below.

 

   

Level 1—quoted prices in active markets for identical investments

   

Level 2—other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates, prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)

   

Level 3—significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of investments)

The fair value of debt instruments, such as bonds, and over-the-counter derivatives is generally based on market price quotations, recently executed market transactions (where observable) or industry recognized modeling techniques and are generally classified as Level 2. Pricing vendor inputs to Level 2 valuations may include quoted prices for similar investments in active markets, interest rate curves, coupon rates, currency rates, yield curves, option adjusted spreads, default rates, credit spreads and other unique security features in order to estimate the relevant cash flows which is then discounted to calculate fair values. If these inputs are unobservable and significant to the fair value, these investments will be classified as Level 3. In addition, non-agency rated investments are classified as Level 3.

Where readily available market prices or relevant bid prices are not available for certain equity investments, such investments may be valued based on similar publicly traded investments, movements in relevant indices since last available prices or based upon underlying company fundamentals and comparable company data (such as multiples to earnings or other multiples to equity). Where an investment is valued using an observable input, by pricing vendors, such as another publicly traded security, the investment will be classified as Level 2. If management determines that an adjustment is appropriate based on restrictions on resale, illiquidity or uncertainty, and such adjustment is a significant component of the valuation, the investment will be classified as Level 3. An investment will also be classified as Level 3 where management uses company fundamentals and other significant inputs to determine the valuation.

Other fixed income investments, including non-U.S. government and corporate debt, are generally valued using quoted market prices, if available, which are typically impacted by current interest rates, maturity dates and any perceived credit risk of the issuer. Additionally, in the absence of quoted market prices, these inputs are used by pricing vendors to derive a valuation based upon industry or proprietary models which incorporate issuer specific data with relevant yield/spread comparisons with more widely quoted bonds with similar key characteristics. Those investments for which there are observable inputs are classified as Level 2. Where the inputs are not observable, the investments are classified as Level 3.

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as of September 30, 2014:

 

Investments in Securities:

   Level 1     Level 2     Level 3     Total  

Assets:

        

Common Stocks*

   $ 116,786,099      $ – 0  –    $ – 0  –    $ 116,786,099   

Short-Term Investments

     – 0  –      100,505        – 0  –      100,505   

Investments of Cash Collateral for Securities Loaned in Affiliated Money Market Fund

     98,550        – 0  –      – 0  –      98,550   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Investments in Securities

     116,884,649        100,505        – 0  –      116,985,154   

Other Financial Instruments**

     – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  –      – 0  – 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total+

   $     116,884,649      $     100,505      $             – 0  –    $     116,985,154   
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

* See Portfolio of Investments for sector classifications.
** Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swaps, which are valued at the unrealized appreciation/depreciation on the instrument.
+ There were no transfers between any levels during the reporting period.

The Portfolio recognizes all transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy assuming the financial instruments were transferred at the beginning of the reporting period.


The Adviser has established a Valuation Committee (the “Committee”) which is responsible for overseeing the pricing and valuation of all securities held in the Portfolio. The Committee operates under pricing and valuation policies and procedures established by the Adviser and approved by the Board, including pricing policies which set forth the mechanisms and processes to be employed on a daily basis to implement these policies and procedures. In particular, the pricing policies describe how to determine market quotations for securities and other instruments. The Committee’s responsibilities include: 1) fair value and liquidity determinations (and oversight of any third parties to whom any responsibility for fair value and liquidity determinations is delegated), and 2) regular monitoring of the Adviser’s pricing and valuation policies and procedures and modification or enhancement of these policies and procedures (or recommendation of the modification of these policies and procedures) as the Committee believes appropriate.

The Committee is also responsible for monitoring the implementation of the pricing policies by the Adviser’s Pricing Group (the “Pricing Group”) and a third party which performs certain pricing functions in accordance with the pricing policies. The Pricing Group is responsible for the oversight of the third party on a day-to-day basis. The Committee and the Pricing Group perform a series of activities to provide reasonable assurance of the accuracy of prices including: 1) periodic vendor due diligence meetings, review of methodologies, new developments and process at vendors, 2) daily compare of security valuation versus prior day for all securities that exceeded established thresholds, and 3) daily review of unpriced, stale, and variance reports with exceptions reviewed by senior management and the Committee.

In addition, several processes outside of the pricing process are used to monitor valuation issues including: 1) performance and performance attribution reports are monitored for anomalous impacts based upon benchmark performance, and 2) portfolio managers review all portfolios for performance and analytics (which are generated using the Adviser’s prices).


ITEM 2. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES.

(a) The registrant’s principal executive officer and principal financial officer have concluded that the registrant’s disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 30a-3(c) under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended) are effective at the reasonable assurance level based on their evaluation of these controls and procedures as of a date within 90 days of the filing date of this document.

(b) There were no significant changes in the registrant’s internal control over financial reporting that could significantly affect these controls subsequent to the date of their evaluation, including any corrective actions with regard to significant deficiencies and material weaknesses.

 

ITEM 3. EXHIBITS.

The following exhibits are attached to this Form N-Q:

 

EXHIBIT NO.

 

DESCRIPTION OF EXHIBIT

11 (a) (1)   Certification of Principal Executive Officer Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
11 (a) (2)   Certification of Principal Financial Officer Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002


SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.

(Registrant): AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.

 

By:   /s/    Robert M. Keith
  Robert M. Keith
  President
Date:   November 21, 2014

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.

 

By:   /s/    Robert M. Keith
  Robert M. Keith
  President
Date:   November 21, 2014

 

By:   /s/    Joseph J. Mantineo
  Joseph J. Mantineo
  Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer
Date:   November 21, 2014