10/31/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/31/2024 13:28
SUMMARY PROSPECTUS October 31, 2024 |
AB Global Core Equity Portfolio
Ticker: Class A-GCEAX; Class C-GCECX; Advisor Class-GCEYX
Before you invest, you may want to review the Fund's Prospectus, which contains more information about the Fund and its risks. The Fund's Prospectus and Statement of Additional Information ("SAI"), both dated October 31, 2024, as may be amended or supplemented, are incorporated by reference into this Summary Prospectus. For free paper or electronic copies of the Fund's Prospectus, reports to shareholders and other information about the Fund, go to www.abfunds.com/go/prospectus, email a request to [email protected], call (800) 227-4618, or ask any financial advisor, bank, or broker-dealer who offers shares of the Fund. The Fund's reports to shareholders are also available at www.abfunds.com/go/GCEP.
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INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE
The Fund's investment objective is to seek long-term growth of capital.
FEES AND EXPENSES OF THE FUND
This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy, hold and sell shares of the Fund. You may be required to pay commissions and/or other forms of compensation to a broker for transactions in Advisor Class shares, which are not reflected in the tables or the examples below. You may qualify for sales charge reductions if you and members of your family invest, or agree to invest in the future, at least $100,000 in AB Mutual Funds. More information about these and other discounts is available from your financial intermediary and in Investing in the Funds-Sales Charge Reduction Programs for Class A Shares on page 67 of the Fund's Prospectus, in Appendix B-Financial Intermediary Waivers of the Fund's Prospectus and in Purchase of Shares-Sales Charge Reduction Programs for Class A Shares on page 128 of the Fund's SAI.
Shareholder Fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
Class A Shares |
Class C Shares |
Advisor Class Shares |
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Maximum Sales Charge (Load) Imposed on Purchases (as a percentage of offering price) |
4.25% | None | None | |||
Maximum Deferred Sales Charge (Load) (as a percentage of offering price or redemption proceeds, whichever is lower) |
None(a) | 1.00%(b) | None | |||
Exchange Fee |
None | None | None |
Annual Fund Operating Expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Class A | Class C | Advisor Class | ||||||||||
Management Fees |
.74% | .74% | .74% | |||||||||
Distribution and/or Service (12b-1) Fees |
.25% | 1.00% | None | |||||||||
Other Expenses: |
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Transfer Agent |
.01% | .02% | .01% | |||||||||
Other Expenses |
.03% | .03% | .03% | |||||||||
Total Other Expenses |
.04% | .05% | .04% | |||||||||
Total Annual Fund Operating Expenses |
1.03% | 1.79% | .78% | |||||||||
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Purchases of Class A shares in amounts of $1,000,000 or more, or by certain group retirement plans, may be subject to a 1%, 1-year contingent deferred sales charge, or CDSC, which may be subject to waiver in certain circumstances. |
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For Class C shares, the CDSC is 0% after the first year. Class C shares automatically convert to Class A shares after eight years. |
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Examples
The Examples are intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the Fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The Examples assume that you invest $10,000 in the Fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The Examples also assume that your investment has a 5% return each year and that the Fund's operating expenses stay the same. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:
Class A | Class C | Advisor Class | ||||||||||
After 1 Year |
$ | 526 | $ | 282 | * | $ | 80 | |||||
After 3 Years |
$ | 739 | $ | 563 | $ | 249 | ||||||
After 5 Years |
$ | 969 | $ | 970 | $ | 433 | ||||||
After 10 Years | $ | 1,631 | $ | 1,905 | $ | 966 |
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If you did not redeem your shares at the end of the period, your expenses would be decreased by approximately $100. |
Portfolio Turnover
The Fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys or sells securities (or "turns over" its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when Fund shares are held in a taxable account. These transaction costs, which are not reflected in the Annual Fund Operating Expenses or in the Examples, affect the Fund's performance. During the most recent fiscal year, the Fund's portfolio turnover rate was 52% of the average value of its portfolio.
PRINCIPAL STRATEGIES
The Fund invests primarily in a portfolio of equity securities of issuers from markets around the world. Under normal circumstances, the Fund invests at least 80% of its net assets in equity securities, at least 40% of its net assets in securities of non-U.S. companies, and invests in companies in at least three countries (including the United States).
The Fund is principally comprised of companies considered by the Adviser to offer good prospects for attractive returns relative to the general stock market. The Adviser seeks companies that are attractively valued and have the ability to generate high and sustainable returns on invested capital. In addition to returns on invested capital, other criteria that the Adviser considers include strong business fundamentals, capable management, prudent corporate governance, strong balance sheet, strong earnings power, high earnings quality, low downside risk, and substantial upside potential. In managing the Fund, the Adviser does not seek to have a bias towards any investment style, economic sector, country or company size. The Fund's holdings of non-U.S. companies frequently include companies located in emerging markets, and at times emerging market companies will make up a significant portion of the Fund.
Fluctuations in currency exchange rates can have a dramatic impact of the returns of equity securities. While the Adviser may hedge the foreign currency exposure resulting from the Fund's security positions through the use of currency-related derivatives, it is not required to do so.
PRINCIPAL RISKS
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Market Risk: The value of the Fund's assets will fluctuate as the market or markets in which the Fund invests fluctuate. The value of the Fund's investments may decline, sometimes rapidly and unpredictably, simply because of economic changes or other events, including public health crises (including the occurrence of a contagious disease or illness) and regional and global conflicts, that affect large portions of the market. It includes the risk that a particular style of investing may be underperforming the market generally. |
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Foreign (Non-U.S.) Risk: Investments in securities of non-U.S. issuers may involve more risk than those of U.S. issuers. These securities may fluctuate more widely in price and may be more difficult to trade due to adverse market, economic, political, regulatory or other factors. |
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Emerging Market Risk: Investments in emerging market countries may have more risk because the markets are less developed and less liquid as well as being subject to increased economic, political, regulatory or other uncertainties. |
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Currency Risk: Fluctuations in currency exchange rates may negatively affect the value of the Fund's investments or reduce its returns. |
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Management Risk: The Fund is subject to management risk because it is an actively-managed investment fund. The Adviser will apply its investment techniques and risk analyses in making investment decisions for the Fund, but there is no guarantee that its techniques will produce the intended results. Some of these techniques may incorporate, or rely upon, quantitative models, but there is no guarantee that these models will generate accurate forecasts, reduce risk or otherwise perform as expected. |
As with all investments, you may lose money by investing in the Fund.
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BAR CHART AND PERFORMANCE INFORMATION
The bar chart and performance information provide an indication of the historical risk of an investment in the Fund by showing:
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how the Fund's performance changed from year to year over the life of the Fund; and |
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how the Fund's average annual returns for one year, five years and since inception compare to those of a broad-based securities market index. |
You may obtain updated performance information on the Fund's website at www.abfunds.com (click on "Investments-Mutual Funds").
The Fund's past performance before and after taxes, of course, does not necessarily indicate how it will perform in the future.
Bar Chart
The annual returns in the bar chart are for the Fund's Class A shares and do not reflect sales loads. If sales loads were reflected, returns would be less than those shown. Through September 30, 2024, the year-to-date unannualized return for Class A shares was 15.65%.
During the period shown in the bar chart, the Fund's:
Best Quarter was up 15.90%, 2nd quarter, 2020; and Worst Quarter was down -20.87%, 1st quarter, 2020.
Performance Table
Average Annual Total Returns
(For the periods ended December 31, 2023)
1 Year | 5 Years |
Since Inception* |
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Class A** | Return Before Taxes | 14.48% | 8.55% | 7.10% | ||||||||||||
Return After Taxes on Distributions | 14.26% | 7.80% | 6.41% | |||||||||||||
Return After Taxes on Distributions and Sale of Fund Shares | 8.72% | 6.61% | 5.54% | |||||||||||||
Class C | Return Before Taxes | 17.70% | 8.69% | 6.80% | ||||||||||||
Advisor Class | Return Before Taxes | 19.87% | 9.77% | 7.87% | ||||||||||||
MSCI ACWI Index (Net) (reflects reinvested dividends net of withholding taxes but reflects no deduction for fees, expenses, or other taxes) |
22.20% | 11.72% | 8.16% |
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Inception date for all Classes: 11/12/14. |
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After-tax returns: |
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Are shown for Class A shares only and will vary for the other Classes of shares because these Classes have different expense ratios; |
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Are an estimate, which is based on the highest historical individual federal marginal income tax rates, and do not reflect the impact of state and local taxes; actual after-tax returns depend on an individual investor's tax situation and are likely to differ from those shown; and |
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Are not relevant to investors who hold Fund shares through tax-deferred arrangements such as 401(k) plans or individual retirement accounts. |
INVESTMENT ADVISER
AllianceBernstein L.P. is the investment adviser for the Fund.
PORTFOLIO MANAGERS
The following table lists the persons responsible for day-to-day management of the Fund's portfolio:
Employee | Length of Service | Title | ||
David Dalgas | Since 2014 | Senior Vice President of the Adviser | ||
Klaus Ingemann | Since 2014 | Senior Vice President of the Adviser |
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PURCHASE AND SALE OF FUND SHARES
Purchase Minimums
The following table describes the initial and subsequent minimum purchase amounts for each class of shares, which are subject to waiver in certain circumstances.
Initial | Subsequent | |||
Class A/Class C shares, including traditional IRAs and Roth IRAs | $2,500 | $50 | ||
Automatic Investment Program | None |
$50
If initial minimum investment is |
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Advisor Class shares (only available to fee-based programs or through other limited arrangements and certain commission-based brokerage arrangements) | None | None | ||
Class A shares are available at net asset value, without an initial sales charge, to 401(k) plans, 457 plans, employer-sponsored 403(b) plans, profit-sharing and money purchase pension plans, defined benefit plans, and non-qualified deferred compensation plans where in each case plan level or omnibus accounts are held on the books of the Fund. | None | None |
You may sell (redeem) your shares each day the New York Stock Exchange is open. You may sell your shares through your financial intermediary or by mail (AllianceBernstein Investor Services, Inc., P.O. Box 786003, San Antonio, TX 78278-6003) or telephone
((800) 221-5672).
TAX INFORMATION
The Fund may pay income dividends or make capital gains distributions, which may be subject to federal income taxes and taxable as ordinary income or capital gains, and may also be subject to state and local taxes.
PAYMENTS TO BROKER-DEALERS AND OTHER FINANCIAL INTERMEDIARIES
If you purchase shares of the Fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary (such as a bank or a group retirement plan), the Fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the sale of Fund shares and related services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other financial intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the Fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary's website for more information.
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