{"id":246957,"date":"2024-03-14T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/ab-and-columbia-climate-school-hosted-biodiversity-training\/"},"modified":"2024-03-14T17:55:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T17:55:00","slug":"ab-and-columbia-climate-school-hosted-biodiversity-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/ab-and-columbia-climate-school-hosted-biodiversity-training\/","title":{"rendered":"AB and Columbia Climate School Hosted Biodiversity Training"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last week, AB, in partnership with Columbia Climate School hosted the Biodiversity Training for AB Investors with biodiversity expert Dr. Jenna Lawrence. Second in the training series, this module introduces investors to the risks and opportunities stemming from biodiversity and nature loss and examines how issuers\u2019 impacts and dependencies on nature can affect their businesses.<\/p>\n

AllianceBernstein<\/strong><\/p>\n

AllianceBernstein (AB) is a leading global investment management firm that offers high-quality research and diversified investment services to institutional investors, individuals, and private wealth clients in major world markets. We believe corporate responsibility, responsible investing and stewardship are intertwined. To be effective stewards of our clients\u2019 assets, we strive to invest responsibly\u2014assessing, engaging on and integrating material issues, including environmental, social and governance (ESG), and climate change considerations in most of our actively managed strategies. We also believe that strive to hold ourselves as a firm to similar practices that we ask of issues. Our stewardship practices, investment strategy and decision-making are guided by our purpose, mission and values.<\/p>\n

Our purpose\u2014pursue insight that unlocks opportunity<\/em>\u2014inspires our firm to act responsibly. While opportunity means something different to each of our stakeholders; it always means considering the unique goals of each stakeholder. AB\u2019s mission is to help our clients define and achieve their investment goals, explicitly stating what we do to unlock opportunity for our clients. We became a signatory to the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) in 2011. This began our journey to formalize our commitment to identify responsible ways to unlock opportunities for our clients through integrating material ESG factors throughout most of our actively managed equity and fixed-income client accounts, funds and strategies. AB also engages issuers where it believes the engagement is in the best financial interest of its clients.<\/p>\n

Because we are an active manager, our differentiated insights drive our ability to deliver alpha and design innovative investment solutions. ESG and climate issues are important elements in forming insights and in presenting potential risks and opportunities that can have an effect on the performance of the companies and issuers that we invest in and the portfolios that we build.<\/p>\n

Our values provide a framework for the behaviors and actions that deliver on our purpose and mission. Values align our actions. Each value emerges from the firm\u2019s collective character\u2014yet is also aspirational.<\/p>\n