Building on its 2025 successes, AllianceBernstein impressed the Sustainable Investment Awards judges in three categories this year.
Winning the award for Thought leadership paper/research on sustainable investing – Americas, the AllianceBernstein blog, How Tomorrow's Natural Disasters Can Inform Today's Investment Decisions, aims to provide investors with clear, engaging and actionable insights that can help manage risks, improve decisions, resilience and outcomes.
In 2025, the Columbia Climate School and AllianceBernstein (AB) introduced the Natural Hazards Index 3.0 - a tool that projects the future location, trajectory and magnitude of major natural hazards at mid-century and end-of-century, including wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes and sea level rise.
By moving beyond historical data to provide decision-ready insight, and integrating hazard projections into AB’s Physical Hazard Investment Risk (PHIR) framework, the research translates climate science into measurable, comparable risk signals across more than 3,100 counties and relevant asset classes.
AllianceBernstein also won Thought leadership paper/research on sustainable investing – APAC for its paper South Korea’s Rising Governance Tide: How to Ride the Value-Up Wave. This paper addresses corporate governance as a cross‑cutting issue spanning investment research, stewardship execution, portfolio construction, and client relevance - rather than solely through an ESG lens.
It presents an outcome-oriented framework for measuring stewardship efficacy and uses South Korea's Corporate Value-Up Program as a case study. The programme was launched to encourage listed companies to improve governance, capital efficiency, transparency and shareholder returns. The Korea Value‑Up Index (KVI), which comprises of companies that meet a range of enhanced governance criteria, was launched in 2024 to track performance. By February 2026 it had outperformed the Korea Composite Stock Price Index (KOSPI) 200 by more than 30%.
Reviewing 1,436 shareholder meetings within a time period of 2016 – 2024, and portfolio returns until 2025, AllianceBernstein evaluated proxy voting outcomes alongside subsequent share price and found that companies with zero votes against management outperformed peers by more than 200 basis points per year on average.
The paper aims to combine original analysis and practical guidance to support understanding of governance and its role in decision-making across APAC.
Winning the Multi-asset fund of the year award for the second consecutive year is the AllianceBernstein Sustainable All Market (SAM) Portfolio. SAM takes a thematic approach to align all holdings with long-term sustainable growth themes (climate, health and empowerment) that address complex global challenges and hence represent a strong forward-return opportunity for investors.
The fund uses a proprietary framework based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to identify material thematic alignment and uses multi-asset insights to balance investment biases that often arise through sustainable investment approaches.
According to the latest fund factsheet as of 31 May 2026, the portfolio delivered a USD net return of 10.22% over the past year and 6.22% (annualised) since inception in October 2020.