01 Aug 2022
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The Alliance Bernstein Sustainable US Equity Fund forms part of the wider Sustainable Thematic platform at Alliance Bernstein. The fund only invests in companies that provide products or services that address the world’s biggest challenges with the definition of sustainability and those challenges based on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. There is both a Luxembourg SICAV and UK OEIC versions of the strategy. The fund is categorised within the IA North America sector with the S&P 500 as its benchmark. The strategy launched in April 2001 with an onshore fund launched in March 2020.
The investment process is proprietary using the 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and circa 106 of the 169 underlying UN SDG targets to formulate the three core themes of health, empowerment and climate. Each of these three core themes consists of subthemes. ESG knowledge is shared across Alliance Bernstein using the proprietary tool ESIGHT that covers both fixed income and equities and allows the tracking of progress over time. In addition, the relationship with Columbia University Climate Science Institute provides links with academia and the education of the portfolio managers on climate change as well as research on particular themes.
Internal resource is strong with a long-standing team that has low turnover and is very much collaborative in its approach utilising grassroots research to understand the solutions required within the respective themes. The team is spread geographically, so remote collaboration is the norm.
The strength of resource, the long-term track record, the proprietary process and proprietary tools with sufficient differentiators, warrants the award of an RSMR Responsible rating.
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