AB Core Bond Portfolio
BERNSTEIN SANFORD C FUND INC · 4 share classes
Fund classification
Classified from what the fund holds · as of 2026 Q2
AB Core Bond Portfolio is an actively managed U.S. bond fund.
- Asset class
- Bonds
- Region
- United States
- Management
- Actively managed
- Fund type
- Open-end fund
- Credit quality
- Investment grade
- Rate sensitivity
- Intermediate duration
Fund profile
As filed in the prospectus · 2026 Q1
The Portfolios investment objective is to provide safety of principal and a moderate to high rate of income that is subject to taxes.
The fund invests at least 80% of assets in fixed-income securities rated A or higher, selected by the manager based on credit quality, interest rate sensitivity, and contribution to overall portfolio risk and return. The manager adjusts portfolio duration between 75% and 125% of benchmark duration based on interest rate forecasts, shortening duration when rates are expected to rise and lengthening it when rates are expected to fall. The fund may hold up to 25% in below-investment-grade securities and up to 25% in non-dollar foreign fixed-income securities. Because security selection and duration positioning depend on the manager's forecasts and assessments, portfolio returns will diverge from any benchmark.
| Share class | Gross | Net | As of |
|---|---|---|---|
| SNIDX | 0.41% | 0.28% | 2026 Q1 |
| IDPYX | 2.09% | 0.65% | 2025 Q1 |
| IDPAX | 2.53% | 0.90% | 2025 Q1 |
| IDPZX | 0.71% | 0.28% | 2026 Q1 |
Net is what a holder pays after the adviser's contractual waiver; gross is before it. A waiver can expire.
Portfolio turnover 193.00% · as of 2026 Q1
Allocation
Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q2
| Bonds | 72.00% |
| Securitized | 33.97% |
| Cash & short-term | 2.52% |
| Derivatives | 0.21% |
| Stocks | 0.00% |
These positions come to 108.71% of the fund's net assets. This counts only what the fund reported holding — the holdings disclosure covers assets, not liabilities such as borrowings — so it is not expected to reconcile to 100%.
Derivatives are shown at market value, not notional exposure.
Sector allocation
The same holdings as Allocation above, grouped by market sector instead of asset type · as of 2026 Q2
| Government | 42.1% |
| Securitized | 31.2% |
| International | 7.1% |
| Other | 5.6% |
| 11 smaller | 14.0% |
Government, Securitized and Cash are non-corporate buckets; International is foreign holdings we don’t sector-classify, and Other is the residual (held funds, unresolved names).
Latest quarter
What changed since the fund's previous filing
Largest new: United States Treasury ×7, UMBS, TBA
Largest exited: United States Treasury ×4, UMBS, TBA ×3, Government National Mortgage Association
Return profile
Total return as filed — price change plus distributions reinvested · trailing figures to Apr 2026
| Share class | 1-year | 3-year | 5-year | Vol | Worst fall |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +3.53% | +10.46% | +0.10% | 3.55% | -6.33% | |
| — | — | — | — | — | |
| — | — | — | — | — | |
| +3.69% | +10.67% | +0.29% | 3.66% | -6.30% |
May 2026 and Jun 2026 have been filed since the trailing figures were struck, so they are not in the table above or the curve — every figure here shares one cut-off, which is what makes them comparable with other funds.
Debt profile
What this fund holds — value-weighted across its bond and securitized long positions · as of 2026-06-30
Share of the fund's debt by how its coupon behaves — the fact that decides whether a rate move reaches this portfolio at all.
| Fixed rate | 90.6% |
| Floating rate | 9.4% |
Share of the fund's debt value in each maturity band, shortest first.
| <1y | 1.6% |
| 1-3y | 27.6% |
| 3-5y | 8.5% |
| 5-10y | 20.2% |
| 10y+ | 42.0% |
These three overlap — one holding can be in arrears and paying in kind at once — so they are shown separately and never summed.
Risk profile
Interest-rate and credit-spread sensitivity, both in years · as of 2026Q2
Most of this fund’s sensitivity is to interest rates, with credit spreads carrying a small fraction as much.
Where the loss would come from. The two shocks are the same size, so this is the balance of the fund's two sensitivities rather than a bet on one moving more.
| Interest rates | 80% |
| Credit spreads | 20% |
Filers report the impact of a 0.01% move only, so the total is our own scaling of that one number and overstates the loss on most bonds — read it as approximate, never as precise. The two sensitivities overlap rather than add up: they measure the same positions against different shocks, which is why the durations above are shown side by side and never summed.
Share of the fund's spread duration carried by each credit tier.
| Investment grade | +1.47 yr |
| High yield | +0.10 yr |
Share of duration at each point, shortest first. A positive figure loses value when spreads widen; a negative one offsets — a credit hedge.
| 1 yr | 0.77 yr | 12% |
| 5 yr | 2.17 yr | 34% |
| 10 yr | 2.19 yr | 35% |
| 30 yr | 1.21 yr | 19% |
3 mo is NEGATIVE (-0.01 yr) — a deliberate hedge at that point on the curve, so it is not part of the band above.
| 3 mo | 0.02 yr | 1% |
| 1 yr | 0.31 yr | 20% |
| 5 yr | 0.66 yr | 42% |
| 10 yr | 0.44 yr | 28% |
| 30 yr | 0.14 yr | 9% |
The two bands measure the same positions against different shocks and do not add — a Treasury carries rate duration and no spread duration, a floating-rate credit the reverse. Rate tenors are also summed across every currency the fund discloses.
Show the numbers
| Tenor | Rate yrs | IG yrs | HY yrs | IG $/bp | HY $/bp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3 mo | -0.01 | +0.01 | +0.00 | $6.6k | $1.4k |
| 1 yr | +0.77 | +0.28 | +0.03 | $124.6k | $13.2k |
| 5 yr | +2.17 | +0.62 | +0.04 | $279.9k | $17.5k |
| 10 yr | +2.19 | +0.42 | +0.02 | $187.8k | $9.8k |
| 30 yr | +1.21 | +0.14 | +0.01 | $62.6k | $2.3k |
Dollar change per 1bp of spread movement, as filed and sign-anchored. A blank cell was not filed; a zero was.
Duration contribution in years, summing to the fund's 6.33 yr.
This is where the fund's rate exposure sits, not its currency risk — most international bond funds hedge the currency back to dollars, and the size of those hedges is not in the filing. Tenors are also summed across curves, so a 5-year JPY point and a 5-year USD point are added together.
Holdings
By % of NAV · equity positions carry filed share counts · every resolvable issuer links to its company page
| Ticker | Issuer | %NAV | Value | Shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | United States Treasury1.38% · due 2031-11-15 | 2.67% | $119.72M | — |
| — | United States Treasury1.38% · due 2028-12-31 | 2.53% | $113.72M | — |
| — | United States Treasury | 2.52% | $113.24M | — |
| — | United States Treasury4.13% · due 2031-10-31 | 2.44% | $109.67M | — |
| — | United States Treasury3.63% · due 2028-05-31 | 2.34% | $104.92M | — |
| — | United States Treasury4.38% · due 2028-11-30 | 2.29% | $102.96M | — |
| — | United States Treasury4.88% · due 2028-10-31 | 2.17% | $97.32M | — |
| — | UMBS, TBA2.00% · due 2056-07-01 | 2.10% | $94.20M | — |
| — | United States Treasury3.63% · due 2031-09-30 | 2.04% | $91.76M | — |
| — | United States Treasury3.50% · due 2028-12-15 | 2.02% | $90.62M | — |
Top 10 positions are 23.13% of net assets, top 25 42.21%, across 294 issuers.
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