AllianceBernstein Holding L.P. Units Reports Operating Results (10-K)

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Feb 11, 2010
AllianceBernstein Holding L.P. Units (AB, Financial) filed Annual Report for the period ended 2009-12-31.

Alliancebernstein Holding L.p. Units has a market cap of $2.35 billion; its shares were traded at around $25.3 with a P/E ratio of 17.6 and P/S ratio of 0.7. The dividend yield of Alliancebernstein Holding L.p. Units stocks is 10.6%. Alliancebernstein Holding L.p. Units had an annual average earning growth of 23.8% over the past 10 years.AB is in the portfolios of Louis Moore Bacon of Moore Capital Management, LP, Chuck Royce of ROYCE & ASSOCIATES, John Keeley of Keeley Fund Management, Ron Baron of Baron Funds, Charles Brandes of Brandes Investment.

Highlight of Business Operations:

Blend strategies are a key component of our product line. As of December 31, 2009, blend strategies AUM was $90 billion (representing 18% of our company-wide AUM), an increase of 6% from $85 billion as of December 31, 2008 and a decrease of 49% from $175 billion as of December 31, 2007.

Our international client base stabilized during 2009, decreasing by 1% compared to a decrease of 43% during 2008. Our global and international AUM increased by 6% during 2009 compared to a decrease of 47% during 2008. Approximately 62%, 76% and 80% of our gross asset inflows (sales/new accounts) during 2009, 2008 and 2007, respectively, were invested in global and international investment services.

We serve our institutional clients primarily through AllianceBernstein Institutional Investments (“Institutional Investments”), a unit of AllianceBernstein, and through other units in our international subsidiaries and one of our joint ventures (institutional relationships of less than $25 million are generally serviced by Bernstein GWM, our Private Client channel, discussed below). Institutional Services include actively managed equity accounts (including growth, value and blend accounts), fixed income accounts and balanced accounts (which combine equity and fixed income), as well as passive management of index and enhanced index accounts. These services are provided through separately-managed accounts, sub-advisory relationships, structured products, collective investment trusts, mutual funds and other investment vehicles. As of December 31, 2009, institutional AUM was $300 billion, or 61% of our company-wide AUM as compared to $291 billion, or 63%, as of December 31, 2008 and $508 billion, or 63%, as of December 31, 2007. For more information concerning institutional AUM, revenues and fees, see “Assets Under Management, Revenues and Fees” in this Item 1.

We provide investment management and related services to a wide variety of individual retail investors, both in the U.S. and internationally, through retail mutual funds sponsored by our company, our subsidiaries and affiliated joint venture companies; mutual fund sub-advisory relationships; Separately-Managed Account Programs; and other investment vehicles (“Retail Products and Services”). As of December 31, 2009, retail AUM was $121 billion, or 24% of our company-wide AUM as compared to $102 billion, or 22%, as of December 31, 2008 and $183 billion, or 23%, as of December 31, 2007. For more information concerning retail AUM, revenues and fees, see “Assets Under Management, Revenues and Fees” in this Item 1.

Our U.S. Funds, which include retail funds, our variable products series fund (a component of an insurance product) and the retail share classes of the Sanford C. Bernstein Funds (principally Private Client Services products, “SCB Funds”), currently offer 99 different portfolios to U.S. investors. As of December 31, 2009, retail U.S. Funds AUM was approximately $45 billion, or 37% of total retail AUM as compared to $39 billion, or 38%, as of December 31, 2008 and $66 billion, or 36%, as of December 31, 2007. Because of the way they are marketed and serviced, we report substantially all of the AUM in the SCB Funds, which totaled $26 billion as of December 31, 2009, as private client AUM.

Through Bernstein GWM, we provide Private Client Services to high-net-worth individuals, trusts and estates, charitable foundations, partnerships, private and family corporations, and other entities by means of separately-managed accounts, hedge funds, mutual funds and other investment vehicles, with a minimum initial account size of $500,000. As of December 31, 2009, private client AUM was $75 billion, or 15% of our company-wide AUM as compared to $69 billion, or 15%, as of Decemb

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