The expansion of its non-public markets platform helped increase AllianceBernstein’s property beneath administration (AUM) and income final 12 months.
The asset supervisor’s non-public markets platform noticed its AUM develop by 9 per cent final 12 months, to achieve $61bn (£48.32bn), representing 8.4 per cent of the corporate’s general enterprise.
By 31 December 2023, AllianceBernstein had property beneath administration of $725.2bn, an increase of 12 per cent from 31 December 2022.
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Seth P. Bernstein, president and chief government of AllianceBernstein, stated that the corporate’s year-end institutional pipeline of $12bn maintains a extremely accretive price price, roughly 3 times the channel common, with non-public options representing greater than 80 per cent of the price base.
The expansion of the non-public markets enterprise offset decrease demand within the equities area, added Bernstein.
“By asset class, decrease lively equities demand was largely offset as municipals grew organically by 11 per cent, with sturdy demand from US retail, and taxable fastened earnings grew organically by three per cent pushed by cross-border demand,” he stated.
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“Our non-public markets platform expanded its choices, with complete AUM of $61bn, up 9 per cent.
“Getting into 2024, we preserve a balanced perspective in managing our enterprise. Whereas we enter 2024 with an AUM base 12 per cent above the prior 12 months interval, we anticipate markets will proceed to replicate a unstable macroeconomic and geopolitical setting.”
AllianceBernstein’s US retail enterprise grew organically for the fifth consecutive 12 months and personal wealth grew for the third straight 12 months.
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