IDPZX AllianceBernstein Intermediate Duration Portfolio

Portfolio Manager—Credit Shawn Keegan is a Senior Vice President and a member of the Credit portfolio-management team, focusing on US and global portfolios. He specializes in Responsible Investing and leads the investment team for AB’s Sustainable Global Thematic Credit Strategy. Keegan is a member of both AB’s Environmental, Social and Governance Research and Stewardship Group and the Principles for Responsible Investment’s Advisory Committee on Environmental, Social and Governance in credit-rating committees. He is also a member of AB’s US Multi-Sector and Canada Fixed Income portfolio-management teams, where he focuses on credit security selection. Keegan first joined AB in 1997 as a portfolio assistant. He then spent a year at Aladdin Capital as a trader before rejoining the firm in 2001 as a member of the US Multi-Sector team. Keegan holds a BS in finance from Siena College and an MBA from the University of Notre Dame. Location: New York

Douglas J. Peebles is the Chief Investment Officer of AB Fixed Income and a Partner of the firm. As CIO, he is also Co-Chairman of the Interest Rates and Currencies Research Review team. Since joining AB in 1987, Peebles has held several leadership positions, including director of Global Fixed Income (1997–2004), co-head of AB Fixed Income (2004–2008) and Head of Fixed Income (2008–2016). He holds a BA from Muhlenberg College and an MBA from Rutgers University. Location: New York Mr. Peebles is expected to retire from the AllianceBernstein L.P. effective December 30, 2020.

Director—Securitized Assets and US Multi-Sector Michael Canter is a Senior Vice President and Director of Securitized Assets and US Multi-Sector Fixed Income at AB, heading the portfolio-management teams for these strategies. His focus includes his role as the Chief Investment Officer of AB’s Securitized Assets Fund. Canter’s team is responsible for AB’s investments in agency mortgage-backed securities, credit risk–transfer securities, non-agency residential mortgage-backed securities, commercial mortgage-backed securities, collateralized loan obligations and other asset-backed securities. He has particularly extensive expertise in residential mortgages. In 2009, AB was selected by the US Department of the Treasury to manage one of nine Legacy Securities Public-Private Investment Program funds; Canter was the CIO of that AB-managed fund. In addition, he was called upon to give expert testimony to the US Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs in 2013 and the US House of Representatives Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance in 2017 on how US housing policy should be structured going forward. Prior to joining AB, Canter was the president of ACE Principal Finance, a division of ACE Limited (now Chubb). There, he managed portfolios of credit default swaps, asset-backed securities, mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations. Canter holds a BA in math and economics from Northwestern University and a PhD in finance from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Location: New York

Portfolio Manager and Head—Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities Research Janaki Rao is a Senior Vice President, Portfolio Manager and Head of Agency Mortgage-Backed Securities Research, where he oversees agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS) research, including fundamental and relative-value research. He brings decades of experience to AB, with a focus on MBS and US interest-rate strategies. Before joining the firm, Rao spent seven years in the US Interest Rate Strategy Group at Morgan Stanley, where he was responsible for covering the agency MBS market, including publishing for the flagship weekly publication, and generating ad hoc reports on breaking news, in-depth analysis of emerging trends and product primers. He also engaged with policymakers on various issues related to housing finance. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Rao ran the advance pricing, debt and derivatives trading desk at the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York. He holds a BA in economics from Delhi University and an MBA in finance from the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College. Location: New York

Portfolio Manager—US and Global Multi-Sector Dimitri Silva is a Vice President and Portfolio Manager at AllianceBernstein. He is a member of the US Multi-Sector, Global Multi-Sector and Fixed Income Absolute Return portfolio-management teams. Silva specializes in global interest-rate strategies, including inflation-linked strategies, as a member of our Rates and Currency Research Review team. He joined the firm in 2007 as an associate portfolio manager. Silva holds a BS (summa cum laude) in mathematics/physics and chemistry from The College of Idaho. He is a CFA charterholder and a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts. Location: New York