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 Headquarters at 501 Commerce inNashville, Tennessee | |
| Company type | Publicsubsidiary |
|---|---|
| NYSE: AB | |
| Industry | Asset management |
| Founded | 1967; 59 years ago (1967) |
| Founders | |
| Headquarters | Nashville, Tennessee, U.S. |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Seth Bernstein (CEO) Joan Lamm-Tennant (chair) Karl Sprules (COO) Tom Simeone (CFO) |
| Products | Asset management,Mutual funds,Sell-side research,private wealth management |
| AUM |  US$867 billion (2025) |
Number of employees | 4,856 (2025) |
| Parent | Equitable Holdings (69%) (2025) |
| Website | alliancebernstein |
| Footnotes / references [2] | |
AllianceBernstein Holding L.P. (AB) is a global asset-management firm providing investment-management and research services worldwide to institutional, high-net-worth andretail investors.
AllianceBernstein's headquarters is located inNashville, Tennessee; the firm also has locations throughout the world. It has approximatelyUS$867 billion inassets under management as of 31 December 2025[update].[3]
AllianceBernstein traces its origins back to Sanford C. Bernstein and the founding of his eponymous private investment firm in 1967. Later in 1968, Bernstein partnered with Zalman Bernstein,Paul P. Bernstein, Shepard D. Osherow,Roger Hertog andLewis A Sanders to form Sanford C. Bernstein & Company.[4]
Alliance Capital was founded in 1971 when the investment-management department ofDonaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette merged with the investment-advisory business ofMoody's Investor Services.[5]
In 2000, Alliance Capital acquired Sanford C. Bernstein.[6] Alliance Capital's growth equity and corporate fixed-income investing, and its family of retail mutual funds, complemented Bernstein's value equity and tax-exempt fixed-income management and its private-client business.
On January 20, 2015, AllianceBernstein announced a new brand name ("AB") and logo.[7]
AllianceBernstein andFidelity Investments took control of supermarketWinn-Dixie's parent company during the latter's 2018 bankruptcy.[8]
In 2018, AllianceBernstein announced that it would move its global headquarters from New York City to Nashville, but still maintain a presence in New York City.[9][10]
In 2019, AllianceBernstein partnered withColumbia University to provide training courses on sustainability and environmental sciences to its staff of investors.[11][12]
In 2019, AllianceBernstein was flagged by theBoycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement as a subsidiary ofAXA through which the French insurance group maintained indirect investments inElbit Systems and Israeli banks despite a partial divestment by the parent company.[13]
In June 2020, AllianceBernstein acquiredinvestment-management firm AnchorPath for $400 million.[14]
In April 2021, AllianceBernstein moved to its new headquarters inNashville, Tennessee.[15][16] In September 2021, AllianceBernstein gave a $100,000 gift to the Nashville-based Martha O'Bryan Center, a non-profit which helps individuals experiencing poverty, transform their lives through work, education, employment and fellowship.[17]
In mid-August 2021, AllianceBernstein disclosed that it had entered astrategic partnership with LSV Advisors, LLC, in which AB would become the exclusive private wealth partner for LSV.[18]
In March 2022, it was announced that AllianceBernstein had acquired theMinneapolis-headquartered CarVal Investors – a global private alternatives investment manager.[19][20]
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