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AllianceBernsteinVariable Products Series Fund, Inc.

AllianceBernstein Balanced Wealth Strategy Portfolio

December 31, 2009

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BALANCED WEALTH STRATEGYPORTFOLIO AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

LETTER TO INVESTORS

February 12, 2010

The following is an update of AllianceBernstein VariableProducts Series Fund AllianceBernstein Balanced WealthStrategy Portfolio (the “Portfolio”) for the annual reportingperiod ended December 31, 2009.

INVESTMENT OBJECTIVE AND POLICIESThe Portfolio’s investment objective is to maximize totalreturn consistent with AllianceBernstein L.P.’s (the“Adviser’s”) determination of reasonable risk. The Portfo-lio invests in a portfolio of equity and debt securities that isdesigned as a solution for investors who seek a moderatetilt toward equity returns but also want the riskdiversification offered by debt securities and the broaddiversification of their equity risk across styles, capital-ization ranges and geographic regions. The Portfolio tar-gets a weighting of 60% equity securities and 40% debtsecurities with a goal of providing moderate upside poten-tial without excessive volatility. In managing the Portfolio,the Adviser efficiently diversifies between the debt andequity components to produce the desired risk/return pro-file. Investments in real estate investment trusts, or REITs,are deemed to be 50% equity and 50% fixed-income forpurposes of the overall target blend of the Portfolio.

The Portfolio’s equity component is diversified betweengrowth and value equity investment styles, and between USand non-US markets. The Adviser’s targeted blend for thenon-REIT portion of the Portfolio’s equity component is anequal weighting of growth and value stocks. The Adviserwill also allow the relative weightings of the growth andvalue subcomponents to vary in response to markets, butordinarily only by +/- 5% of the Portfolio. Beyond thoseranges, the Adviser will generally rebalance the Portfolio’sequity component toward the targeted blend. However,under extraordinary circumstances, when the Adviserbelieves that conditions favoring one investment style arecompelling, the range may expand to 10% of the Portfolio.In addition to blending growth and value styles, the Adviserblends each style-based portion of the Portfolio’s equitycomponent across US and non-US issuers and various capi-talization ranges. Within each of the value and growth por-tions of the Portfolio, the Adviser normally targets a blend ofapproximately 70% in equities of US companies and theremaining 30% in equities of companies outside the UnitedStates. The Adviser will also allow the relative weightings ofthese geographical subcomponents to vary in response tomarkets, but ordinarily only by +/- 5% of the Portfolio.Beyond those ranges, the Adviser will generally rebalancethe Portfolio toward the targeted blend. However, under

extraordinary circumstances, when the Adviser believes thatconditions favoring US or non-US issuers are compelling,the range may expand to 10% of the Portfolio.

The Portfolio’s debt securities will primarily beinvestment-grade debt securities (including cash andmoney market instruments), but may also include pre-ferred stock and, when the Adviser believes that conditionsfavoring them are compelling, lower-rated securities(“junk bonds”). The Portfolio will not invest more than25% of its net assets in securities rated at the time of pur-chase below investment grade, which are, securities ratedBB or lower by Standard & Poor’s (S&P) or Ba or lowerby Moody’s, or in unrated securities deemed to be ofcomparable quality at the time of purchase by the Adviser.

The Portfolio may invest in convertible securities, enterinto repurchase agreements and forward commitments,and make short sales of securities or maintain a short posi-tion, but only if at all times when a short position is opennot more than 33% of its net assets is held as collateral forsuch short sales. The Portfolio may enter into derivativestransactions, such as options, futures, forwards and swapagreements.

INVESTMENT RESULTSThe table on page 4 shows the Portfolio’s performancecompared to its balanced benchmark, a 60% / 40% blendof the S&P 500 Stock Index and the Barclays Capital USAggregate Bond Index, for the one- and five-year periodsended December 31, 2009 and since the Portfolio’sinception on July 1, 2004.

The Portfolio outperformed its benchmark for the annualreporting period ended December 31, 2009. All underlyingcomponents had positive absolute performance for theannual reporting period with the international value andREIT components posting the highest absolute returns. Inaddition, all underlying components outperformed theirbenchmarks, with the exception of US growth, whichunderperformed its style benchmark for the annual report-ing period.

The Portfolio’s premium was driven mostly by the interna-tional value and intermediate duration bond components.Strong security selection within the technology, consumerdiscretionary and financial sectors drove relative returns inthe international value component. Meanwhile, the inter-mediate duration bond component benefited from itsoverweight position in corporate bonds and commercialmortgage-backed securities (CMBS).

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AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

MARKET REVIEW AND INVESTMENT STRATEGYStocks have surged from March 2009 lows, as the globaleconomy regained its footing and investors began lookingtoward future profits. The S&P 500 Stock Index rose26.46% in 2009 and has now climbed some 68% above itsMarch low. Nongovernment debt also outperformed gov-ernment bonds as spreads narrowed further. The globaleconomic recovery broadened in late 2009 as evidenceemerged that the US and the euro area had returned topositive growth, and much of Asia posted near double-digit gains in the third quarter.

The Portfolio’s growth component increased its exposureto cyclically sensitive stocks in 2009 as the economicrecovery improved their prospects. At the same time, thefocus remained on finding firms with sound growthfundamentals. In the fourth quarter, health care exposurewas increased after having been sharply reduced earlier inthe year. The growth opportunity continues to be compel-ling as the premium that growth stocks typically haveversus the broad market remains at depressed levels.

The Portfolio’s value component includes significantexposure to many attractively valued, cyclically sensitivefirms. The focus is to exploit changes in the competitivedynamics of many industries and many firms’ efforts toimprove operations to restore profitability. Despitenarrowing valuation spreads over the past year, the valueopportunity remains above average and widespread acrosssectors.

The Portfolio’s bond component maintains an overweightin investment-grade corporates and a more modest over-weight in CMBS. The focus is to seek opportunities tostrategically reduce the component’s CMBS overweight.The yield advantage of corporates over Treasuries remainsattractive despite the recent narrowing.

As always, the Portfolio remains focused on its long-termstrategy: combining low correlation asset classes, blendinggrowth and value investment styles, globalizing its hold-ings and ensuring the Portfolio is aligned with the itsstrategic asset allocation targets over time through a dis-ciplined rebalancing process.

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BALANCED WEALTH STRATEGY PORTFOLIOHISTORICAL PERFORMANCE AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

An Important Note About the Value of Historical PerformanceThe performance shown on the following page represents past performance and does not guarantee future results.Current performance may be lower or higher than the performance information shown. Please contact your Finan-cial Advisor or Insurance Agent Representative at your financial institution to obtain performance informationcurrent to the most recent month-end.

Investors should consider the investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses of the Portfolio carefullybefore investing. For copies of our prospectus or summary prospectus, which contain this and otherinformation, visit us online at www.alliancebernstein.com or contact your AllianceBernstein Investmentsrepresentative. Please read the prospectus and/or summary prospectus carefully before investing.

All fees and expenses related to the operation of the Portfolio have been deducted, but no adjustment has been made forinsurance company separate account or annuity contract charges, which would reduce total return to a contract owner. NAVreturns do not reflect sales charges; if sales charges were reflected, the Portfolio’s quoted performance would belower. Performance assumes reinvestment of distributions and does not account for taxes.

Benchmark DisclosureThe unmanaged Standard & Poor’s (S&P) 500 Stock Index and the unmanaged Barclays Capital US AggregateBond Index do not reflect fees and expenses associated with the active management of a mutual fund portfolio. TheS&P 500 Stock Index includes 500 US stocks and is a common measure of the performance of the overall US stock market.The Barclays Capital US Aggregate Bond Index covers the US investment-grade fixed-rate bond market, includinggovernment and credit securities, agency mortgage pass through securities, asset-backed securities and commercialmortgage-backed securities. An investor cannot invest directly in an index, and its results are not indicative of the perform-ance for any specific investment, including the Portfolio.

A Word About RiskThe Portfolio allocates its investments among multiple asset classes which will include US and foreign securities, as well asequity and fixed-income securities. Price fluctuations in the underlying Portfolio securities may be caused by changes in thegeneral level of interest rates or changes in bond credit quality ratings. Please note, as interest rates rise, existing bond pricesfall and can cause the value of an investment to decline. Changes in interest rates have a greater effect on bonds with longermaturities than on those with shorter maturities. Investment in the Portfolio is not guaranteed because of fluctuation in thenet asset value of the underlying fixed-income related investments. High yield bonds, otherwise known as “junk bonds”,involve a greater risk of default and price volatility than other bonds. Investing in below investment-grade securities presentsspecial risks, including credit risk. Within each of these, the Portfolio will also allocate its investments in different types ofsecurities, such as growth and value stocks, real estate investment trusts, and corporate and US government bonds. Interna-tional investing involves risks not associated with US investments, including currency fluctuations and political andeconomic changes. The Portfolio may at times use certain types of investment derivatives such as options, futures, forwardsand swaps. The Portfolio systematically rebalances its allocations in these asset classes to maintain its target weightings.There can be no assurance that rebalancing will achieve its intended result, and the costs of rebalancing may be significantover time. The use of derivatives involves specific risks and is not suitable for all investors. These instruments involve risksdifferent from, and in certain cases, greater than, the risks presented by more traditional investments. These risks are fullydiscussed in the Variable Products prospectus.

There are additional fees and expenses associated with all Variable Products. These fees can include mortality andexpense risk charges, administrative charges, and other charges that can significantly reduce investment returns.Those fees and expenses are not reflected in this annual report. You should consult your Variable Products pro-spectus for a description of those fees and expenses and speak to your insurance agent or financial representative ifyou have any questions. You should read the prospectus before investing or sending money.

(Historical Performance continued on next page)

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BALANCED WEALTH STRATEGY PORTFOLIOHISTORICAL PERFORMANCE(continued from previous page) AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

THE PORTFOLIO VS. ITS BENCHMARK Returns

PERIODS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2009 1 Year 5 Years Since Inception*

AllianceBernstein Balanced Wealth Strategy Portfolio Class A** 24.88% 2.43% 3.45%

AllianceBernstein Balanced Wealth Strategy Portfolio Class B** 24.45% 2.16% 3.17%

60% S&P 500 Stock Index / 40% Barclays Capital US AggregateBond Index 18.40% 2.54% 3.48%

S&P 500 Stock Index 26.46% 0.42% 1.85%

Barclays Capital US Aggregate Bond Index 5.93% 4.97% 5.23%* Since inception of the Portfolio’s Class A and Class B shares on 7/1/04.

** Includes the impact of proceeds received and credited to the Portfolio resulting from class action settlements, whichenhanced the Portfolio’s performance for the annual period ended December 31, 2009 by 0.06%

The Portfolio’s current prospectus fee table shows the Portfolio’s total annual operating expense ratios as 0.78% and1.02% for Class A and Class B, respectively. The Financial Highlights section of this report sets forth expense ratiodata for the current reporting period; the expense ratios shown above may differ from the expense ratios in theFinancial Highlights section since they are based on different time periods.

ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN BALANCED WEALTH STRATEGY PORTFOLIO CLASS AGROWTH OF A $10,000 INVESTMENT7/1/04* – 12/31/09

7/1/04 12/31/04 12/31/05 12/31/06 12/31/07 12/31/08 12/31/09$6,000

$8,000

$10,000

$12,000

$14,000

$16,000

AllianceBernsteinBalanced Wealth StrategyPortfolio Class A: $12,054

60% S&P 500 Stock Index / 40% Barclays CapitalUS Aggregate Bond Index: $12,076

Barclays CapitalUS AggregateBond Index: $13,241

AllianceBernstein Balanced Wealth Strategy Portfolio Class A

60% S&P 500 Stock Index / 40% Barclays Capital US Aggregate Bond Index

S&P 500 Stock Index

Barclays Capital US Aggregate Bond Index

S&P 500 StockIndex: $11,058

* Since inception of the Portfolio’s Class A shares on 7/1/04.

This chart illustrates the total value of an assumed $10,000 investment in AllianceBernstein Balanced Wealth Strategy Port-folio Class A shares (from 7/1/04* to 12/31/09) as compared to the performance of the Portfolio’s balanced benchmark(60% S&P 500 Stock Index / 40% Barclays Capital US Aggregate Bond Index), as well as the individual components of thebalanced benchmark. The chart assumes the reinvestment of dividends and capital gains distributions.

See Historical Performance and Benchmark disclosures on previous page.

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BALANCED WEALTH STRATEGY PORTFOLIOFUND EXPENSES (unaudited) AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

As a shareholder of the Fund, you incur two types of costs: (1) transaction costs, including sales charges (loads) on purchasepayments, contingent deferred sales charges on redemptions and (2) ongoing costs, including management fees; distribution(12b-1) fees; and other Fund expenses. This example is intended to help you understand your ongoing costs (in dollars) ofinvesting in the Fund and to compare these costs with the ongoing costs of investing in other mutual funds.

The Example is based on an investment of $1,000 invested at the beginning of the period and held for the entire period asindicated below.

Actual ExpensesThe first line of each class’ table below provides information about actual account values and actual expenses. You may usethe information in this line, together with the amount you invested, to estimate the expenses that you paid over the period.Simply divide your account value by $1,000 (for example, an $8,600 account value divided by $1,000 = 8.6), then multiplythe result by the number in the first line under the heading entitled “Expenses Paid During Period” to estimate the expensesyou paid on your account during this period. The estimate of expenses does not include fees or other expenses of any varia-ble insurance product. If such expenses were included, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higherand your ending account value would be lower.

Hypothetical Example for Comparison PurposesThe second line of each class’ table below provides information about hypothetical account values and hypotheticalexpenses based on the Fund’s actual expense ratio and an assumed annual rate of return of 5% before expenses, which is notthe Fund’s actual return. The hypothetical account values and expenses may not be used to estimate the actual endingaccount balance or expenses you paid for the period. You may use this information to compare the ongoing costs of inves-ting in the Fund and other funds by comparing this 5% hypothetical example with the 5% hypothetical examples that appearin the shareholder reports of other funds. The estimate of expenses does not include fees or other expenses of any variableinsurance product. If such expenses were included, the estimate of expenses you paid during the period would be higher andyour ending account value would be lower.

Please note that the expenses shown in the table are meant to highlight your ongoing costs only and do not reflect any transac-tional costs, such as sales charges (loads), or contingent deferred sales charges on redemptions. Therefore, the second line ofeach class’ table is useful in comparing ongoing costs only, and will not help you determine the relative total costs of owningdifferent funds. In addition, if these transactional costs were included, your costs would have been higher.

Balanced Wealth Strategy Portfolio

BeginningAccount Value

July 1, 2009

EndingAccount Value

December 31, 2009Expenses PaidDuring Period*

AnnualizedExpense Ratio*

Class AActual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,000 $ 1,189.73 $ 3.92 0.71%Hypothetical (5% return before expenses) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,000 $ 1,021.63 $ 3.62 0.71%

Class BActual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,000 $ 1,188.77 $ 5.30 0.96%Hypothetical (5% return before expenses) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,000 $ 1,020.37 $ 4.89 0.96%

* Expenses are equal to each classes’ annualized expense ratios, multiplied by the average account value over the period, multiplied by184/365 (to reflect the one-half year period).

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BALANCED WEALTH STRATEGY PORTFOLIOTEN LARGEST HOLDINGS*December 31, 2009 (unaudited) AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

COMPANY U.S. $ VALUE PERCENT OF NET ASSETSU.S. Treasury Bonds & Notes $ 49,675,360 9.3%Federal National Mortgage Association (Preferred Stocks and

Bonds) 22,679,944 4.3JPMorgan Chase & Co. (Common Stock and Bonds) 11,543,369 2.2The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (Common Stock and Bonds) 9,399,838 1.8Google Inc.–Class A 6,999,574 1.3Apple, Inc. 6,865,602 1.3Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corp. (Preferred Stock and

Bonds) 5,687,780 1.1Alcon, Inc. 4,895,329 0.9AT&T, Inc. (Common Stock and Bonds) 4,359,809 0.8Intel Corp. 4,241,160 0.8

$ 126,347,765 23.8%

SECURITY TYPE BREAKDOWNDecember 31, 2009 (unaudited)

SECURITY TYPE U.S. $ VALUEPERCENT OF TOTAL

INVESTMENTSCommon Stocks $ 341,107,434 63.3%Corporates—Investment Grades 57,391,353 10.6Governments—Treasuries 51,920,767 9.6Mortgage Pass-Thru’s 27,765,739 5.2Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities 15,192,546 2.8Agencies 9,961,510 1.8Corporates—Non-Investment Grades 6,192,525 1.1Asset-Backed Securities 2,830,201 0.5Governments—Sovereign Bonds 2,559,607 0.5Governments—Sovereign Agencies 2,039,956 0.4Inflation-Linked Securities 1,848,473 0.3Quasi-Sovereigns 885,938 0.2Short-Term Investments 17,526,000 3.3Other** 2,053,951 0.4Total Investments $ 539,276,000 100.0%

* Long-term investments.

** “Other” represents less than 0.2% weightings in the following security types: Preferred Stocks, CMO’s, Warrants, EmergingMarkets-Corporate Bonds, and Rights.

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BALANCED WEALTH STRATEGY PORTFOLIOPORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTSDecember 31, 2009 AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

Company Shares U.S. $ Value

COMMON STOCKS–64.1%FINANCIALS–20.5%CAPITAL MARKETS–3.4%Ameriprise Financial, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 23,800 $ 923,916The Blackstone Group LP . . . . . . . . . . . 133,475 1,751,192Credit Suisse Group AG .. . . . . . . . . . . . 24,247 1,201,228Credit Suisse Group AG (Sponsored

ADR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,600 570,256Deutsche Bank AG .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,500 601,035Franklin Resources, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,045 1,690,341The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. . . . . . 47,789 8,068,695Julius Baer Group Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,515 615,975Macquarie Group Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,600 882,634Man Group PLC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,833 497,647Morgan Stanley . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,000 1,213,600

18,016,519

COMMERCIAL BANKS–3.1%Australia & New Zealand Banking

Group Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,435 497,948Banco do Brasil SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,500 435,009Banco Santander Central Hispano

SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125,636 2,076,093Barclays PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70,100 308,893BB&T Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,600 801,692BNP Paribas SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,560 837,599Credit Agricole SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,962 648,678Danske Bank A/S(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,200 363,680Hana Financial Group, Inc.(a) . . . . . . . 5,300 149,801HSBC Holdings PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79,053 901,864Industrial & Commercial Bank of

China Ltd.–Class H . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 566,000 466,137KB Financial Group, Inc.(a) . . . . . . . . . 10,345 526,770National Australia Bank Ltd. . . . . . . . . 20,300 495,403National Bank of Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,100 293,755Societe Generale–Class A. . . . . . . . . . . . 11,029 766,294Standard Bank Group Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 1,700 23,350Standard Chartered PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,159 1,468,278Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group,

Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,900 341,475Turkiye Garanti Bankasi AS . . . . . . . . . 80,400 342,497Turkiye Vakiflar Bankasi Tao–

Class D(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61,400 176,140U.S. Bancorp . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,400 1,404,624UniCredito Italiano SpA(a) . . . . . . . . . . 173,300 579,473United Overseas Bank Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . 27,000 375,833Wells Fargo & Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89,000 2,402,110

16,683,396

CONSUMER FINANCE–0.1%ORIX Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,540 377,187

DIVERSIFIED FINANCIALSERVICES–2.7%

Bank of America Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228,800 3,445,728Citigroup, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187,900 621,949CME Group, Inc.–Class A . . . . . . . . . . . 4,600 1,545,370


Hong Kong Exchanges and ClearingLtd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,500 $ 631,630

JP Morgan Chase & Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196,117 8,172,195

14,416,872

INSURANCE–1.5%ACE Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,500 478,800Allianz SE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,700 706,572Allstate Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,300 519,692Aviva PLC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,754 195,631Chubb Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,400 314,752Everest Re Group Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,900 162,792Industrial Alliance Insurance and

Financial Services, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 700 21,552MetLife, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,300 859,005Muenchener Rueckversicherungs

AG (MunichRe) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,700 420,551Old Mutual PLC(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176,800 309,612PartnerRe Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,600 268,776Principal Financial Group, Inc. . . . . . . 15,300 367,812QBE Insurance Group Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . 23,624 539,108Sun Life Financial, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,200 150,404The Travelers Co., Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,600 1,176,696Unum Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,700 521,184XL Capital Ltd.–Class A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,000 769,860

7,782,799

REAL ESTATE INVESTMENTTRUSTS (REITs)–6.5%

Alexandria Real Estate Equities,Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,525 290,912

Allied Properties Real EstateInvestment Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,000 295,874

Ascendas Real Estate InvestmentTrust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 492,000 772,340

BioMed Realty Trust, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 28,100 443,418Brandywine Realty Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,650 554,610British Land Co. PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83,136 640,179Camden Property Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,300 266,931Canadian Real Estate Investment

Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,900 127,062Canadian Real Estate Investment

Trust (Toronto) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,170 419,305CapitaMall Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222,940 284,554CBL & Associates Properties, Inc. . . 42,250 408,558Chartwell Seniors Housing Real

Estate Investment Trust . . . . . . . . . . . 43,700 293,743Cominar Real Estate Investment

Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,929 368,720Corio NV .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,200 286,145Corporate Office Properties Trust . . . 14,800 542,124DiamondRock Hospitality Co. . . . . . . . 31,700 268,499Digital Realty Trust, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,300 819,564Duke Realty Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44,500 541,565DuPont Fabros Technology, Inc. . . . . 15,700 282,443Education Realty Trust, Inc. . . . . . . . . . 26,300 127,292

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BALANCED WEALTH STRATEGY PORTFOLIOPORTFOLIO OF INVESTMENTS(continued) AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund


Entertainment Properties Trust . . . . 11,450 $ 403,842Equity Residential . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,500 388,470Essex Property Trust, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 5,100 426,615Extra Space Storage, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 23,400 270,270Federal Realty Investment Trust . . . 4,200 284,424Fonciere Des Regions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,100 316,985General Property Group . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,285,100 690,565Government Properties Income

Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,450 263,121Great Portland Estates PLC . . . . . . . . 55,300 255,974H&R Real Estate Investment

Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,500 302,840HCP, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,950 395,493Health Care REIT, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,500 509,680Home Properties, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,888 424,047Host Hotels & Resorts, Inc.(a) . . . . . 24,230 282,764ING Office Fund . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 639,300 363,394InnVest Real Estate Investment

Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,500 292,489Japan Real Estate Investment

Corp.–Class A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 258,013Kenedix Realty Investment

Corp.–Class A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 73,923Klepierre . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,962 1,497,525Land Securities Group PLC . . . . . . . . 44,852 493,668LaSalle Hotel Properties . . . . . . . . . . . 13,400 284,482The Link REIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50,000 127,071Mack-Cali Realty Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,500 535,835Macquarie CountryWide Trust . . . . 123,911 64,308Mercialys SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,324 222,611Mid-America Apartment

Communities, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,850 427,278Morguard Real Estate Investment

Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,300 290,958National Retail Properties, Inc. . . . . 10,597 224,868Nationwide Health Properties,

Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,300 538,254Nomura Real Estate Office Fund,

Inc.–Class A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 369,826Omega Healthcare Investors,

Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,500 243,125Orix JREIT, Inc.–Class A . . . . . . . . . . 55 274,599Primaris Retail Real Estate

Investment Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,683 535,243ProLogis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,125 754,661Public Storage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,600 619,020Rayonier, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,500 400,520RioCan Real Estate Investment

Trust (New York)(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,400 26,572RioCan Real Estate Investment

Trust (Toronto) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,787 394,533Simon Property Group, Inc. . . . . . . . . 31,315 2,498,937Societe Immobiliere de Location

pour l’Industrie et leCommerce . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 800 97,551

Starwood Property Trust, Inc. . . . . . . 15,000 283,350Stockland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219,280 772,571


Sunstone Hotel Investors, Inc.(a) . . . . 60,413 $ 536,467Tanger Factory Outlet Centers . . . . . . . 6,600 257,334UDR, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,700 521,148Unibail-Rodamco SE. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,978 3,290,367Ventas, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,200 708,588Vornado Realty Trust . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,247 506,855Weingarten Realty Investors . . . . . . . . . 24,100 476,939Wereldhave NV .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,800 362,959Westfield Group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177,949 1,991,589

34,866,359

REAL ESTATEMANAGEMENT &DEVELOPMENT–3.2%

Agile Property Holdings Ltd. . . . . . . . . 374,000 543,853BR Malls Participacoes SA(a) . . . . . . . 22,150 273,535Brookfield Properties Corp.

(New York) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,525 285,123CB Richard Ellis Group,

Inc.–Class A(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,800 322,966Citycon Oyj . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,642 44,553GAGFAH SA .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,800 243,595Henderson Land Development Co.

Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87,000 652,354Hongkong Land Holdings Ltd. . . . . . . 194,000 955,466Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,700 283,880Kerry Properties Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126,131 637,973Lend Lease Corp. Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117,503 1,084,665Mitsubishi Estate Co. Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 34,000 542,839Mitsui Fudosan Co. Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150,100 2,537,924Multiplan Empreendimentos

Imobiliarios SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,287 1,049,117New World Development Co.

Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 667,051 1,359,051NTT Urban Development Corp. . . . . . 439 293,049Savills PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,100 350,657Sino-Ocean Land Holdings Ltd. . . . . . 395,500 363,646Sumitomo Realty & Development . . . 50,000 943,875Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. . . . . . . . . 186,700 2,776,064Swire Pacific Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,500 272,969Wing Tai Holdings Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 439,000 567,280Yanlord Land Group Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . 487,000 744,704

17,129,138

109,272,270

INFORMATIONTECHNOLOGY–9.4%

COMMUNICATIONSEQUIPMENT–1.4%

Cisco Systems, Inc.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,950 1,722,483JDS Uniphase Corp.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,000 272,250Motorola, Inc.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139,285 1,080,851Nokia OYJ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,100 621,933QUALCOMM, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,800 3,506,508

7,204,025

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COMPUTERS &PERIPHERALS–3.0%

Apple, Inc.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,560 $ 6,865,602Compal Electronics, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56,843 78,517Dell, Inc.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,700 929,092EMC Corp.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132,300 2,311,281Hewlett-Packard Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71,900 3,703,569Seagate Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,800 596,632Toshiba Corp.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180,000 998,802Western Digital Corp.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,500 507,725

15,991,220

ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT,INSTRUMENTS &COMPONENTS–0.8%

AU Optronics Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182,310 218,407Corning, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,300 1,029,223Hitachi High-Technologies Corp. . . . 4,000 79,361HON HAI Precision Industry Co.

Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,000 350,749HON HAI Precision Industry Co.

Ltd. (GDR)(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,400 231,643Kyocera Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,000 176,141LG Display Co. Ltd.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,900 334,723Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. . . . . . . 5,800 289,462Nippon Electric Glass Co. Ltd. . . . . . . 46,000 633,138Tyco Electronics Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,400 991,820

4,334,667

INTERNET SOFTWARE &SERVICES–1.5%

AOL, Inc.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,084 118,356Google, Inc.–Class A(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,290 6,999,574Telecity Group PLC(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49,400 304,497Tencent Holdings Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,400 355,116

7,777,543

IT SERVICES–0.1%Computer Sciences Corp.(a) . . . . . . . . . 12,200 701,866

SEMICONDUCTORS &SEMICONDUCTOREQUIPMENT–2.0%

ASML Holding NV .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,300 658,937Broadcom Corp.–Class A(a) . . . . . . . . . 27,100 852,295Hynix Semiconductor, Inc.(a) . . . . . . . . 25,100 499,144Intel Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207,900 4,241,160KLA-Tencor Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,700 1,146,272Lam Research Corp.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,800 384,258Micron Technology, Inc.(a) . . . . . . . . . . 111,900 1,181,664Samsung Electronics (Preference

Shares) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 90,149Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. . . . . . . . 1,040 713,159Taiwan Semiconductor

Manufacturing Co. Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 119,684 241,220Teradyne, Inc.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,500 520,405

10,528,663


SOFTWARE–0.6%Microsoft Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76,800 $ 2,341,632Symantec Corp.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,500 1,064,455

3,406,087

49,944,071

ENERGY–6.3%ENERGY EQUIPMENT &

SERVICES–1.5%Cameron International Corp.(a) . . . . . . 34,450 1,440,010Ensco International PLC (Sponsored

ADR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,200 527,208National Oilwell Varco, Inc. . . . . . . . . . 6,300 277,767Rowan Cos, Inc.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,000 271,680Saipem SpA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,900 928,331Schlumberger Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,430 3,868,299Tenaris SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,448 785,488

8,098,783

OIL, GAS & CONSUMABLEFUELS–4.8%

Apache Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,200 536,484BG Group PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,535 966,644BP PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108,200 1,044,799Chevron Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,000 1,847,760China Coal Energy Co.–Class H . . . . . 133,000 240,660Cimarex Energy Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,900 948,163ConocoPhillips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,400 2,982,488Devon Energy Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,400 1,793,400ENI SpA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,300 516,956Exxon Mobil Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45,900 3,129,921Forest Oil Corp.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,300 629,675KazMunaiGas Exploration

Production (GDR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,350 183,015LUKOIL (OTC US) (Sponsored

ADR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,650 610,245Nexen, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,132 220,212Occidental Petroleum Corp. . . . . . . . . . . 41,200 3,351,620OGX Petroleo e Gas Participacoes

SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,600 300,551PetroChina Co. Ltd.–Class H . . . . . . . . 176,000 209,237Royal Dutch Shell PLC (Euronext

Amsterdam)–Class A . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,600 1,283,623StatoilHydro ASA .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,479 485,799Suncor Energy, Inc. (New York) . . . . 34,500 1,218,195Suncor Energy, Inc. (Toronto) . . . . . . . 38,836 1,381,735Tullow Oil PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,934 439,205Valero Energy Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,200 958,100

25,278,487

33,377,270

CONSUMERDISCRETIONARY–6.2%

AUTO COMPONENTS–0.4%Johnson Controls, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,900 1,577,196TRW Automotive Holdings

Corp.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,000 358,200

1,935,396

9



AUTOMOBILES–0.7%Bayerische Motoren Werke AG .. . . . 5,400 $ 245,820Ford Motor Co.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116,700 1,167,000Honda Motor Co. Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,000 746,431Nissan Motor Co. Ltd.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . 70,900 623,063Suzuki Motor Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,700 435,898Volkswagen AG .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,100 575,395

3,793,607

DISTRIBUTORS–0.0%Li & Fung Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68,000 279,834

HOTELS, RESTAURANTS &LEISURE–0.6%

Carnival Corp.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,900 282,041Carnival PLC(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,524 699,216Hyatt Hotels Corp.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,770 470,104Mitchells & Butlers PLC(a) . . . . . . . . . . 94,400 376,377Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.(a) . . . . . 4,000 101,120TABCORP Holdings Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . 31,300 194,196Thomas Cook Group PLC . . . . . . . . . . . 43,000 158,850TUI Travel PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,600 117,212Whitebread PLC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,900 428,872Wyndham Worldwide Corp. . . . . . . . . . 17,900 361,043

3,189,031

HOUSEHOLD DURABLES–0.8%DR Horton, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,900 314,143Fortune Brands, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000 129,600MRV Engenharia e Participacoes

SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75,300 609,839NVR, Inc.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,750 1,243,743Pulte Homes, Inc.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53,500 535,000Sharp Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,000 328,335Sony Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,600 279,089Whirlpool Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,000 645,280

4,085,029

LEISURE EQUIPMENT &PRODUCTS–0.0%

Namco Bandai Holdings, Inc. . . . . . . . . 6,300 60,184

MEDIA–1.9%British Sky Broadcasting Group

PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,690 268,185CBS Corp.–Class B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,300 973,665Comcast Corp.–Class A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62,700 1,057,122Lagardere SCA .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,900 117,408News Corp.–Class A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158,500 2,169,865SES SA (FDR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,845 447,054Time Warner Cable, Inc.–Class A . . . 33,300 1,378,287Time Warner, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55,933 1,629,888Viacom, Inc.–Class B(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,300 1,049,469Vivendi SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,410 368,326The Walt Disney Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,377 366,908WPP PLC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,800 428,377

10,254,554

MULTILINE RETAIL–1.1%JC Penney Co., Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,700 497,607Kohl’s Corp.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,640 2,299,575


Macy’s, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,800 $ 465,928Marks & Spencer Group PLC . . . . . . . 33,300 215,150Next PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,605 354,590Target Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41,360 2,000,583

5,833,433

SPECIALTY RETAIL–0.7%Esprit Holdings Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,100 106,818Foot Locker, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,700 152,618Home Depot, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,500 882,365Limited Brands, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,400 681,096Lowe’s Cos, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48,400 1,132,076Office Depot, Inc.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83,900 541,155

3,496,128

TEXTILES, APPAREL &LUXURY GOODS–0.0%

Jones Apparel Group, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . 12,600 202,356Yue Yuen Industrial Holdings

Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,000 26,173

228,529

33,155,725

HEALTH CARE–6.1%BIOTECHNOLOGY–1.0%Celgene Corp.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,300 1,185,984Gilead Sciences, Inc.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78,450 3,395,316Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.(a) . . . . . . 15,300 655,605

5,236,905

HEALTH CARE EQUIPMENT &SUPPLIES–1.3%

Alcon, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29,786 4,895,329Baxter International, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,700 1,155,996Covidien PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,400 881,176Hospira, Inc.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,300 117,300

7,049,801

HEALTH CARE PROVIDERS &SERVICES–0.4%

Aetna, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,200 957,340Celesio AG .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,800 96,217Fresenius Medical Care AG & Co.

KGaA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,000 212,188Medco Health Solutions, Inc.(a) . . . . . 9,250 591,168UnitedHealth Group, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,000 396,240

2,253,153

PHARMACEUTICALS–3.4%AstraZeneca PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,400 864,750Bayer AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,622 1,410,175GlaxoSmithKline PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,663 904,708Johnson & Johnson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,700 495,957Merck & Co., Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88,708 3,241,390Novartis AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,954 707,408Novo Nordisk A/S–Class B . . . . . . . . . . 9,678 617,859Pfizer, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185,900 3,381,521Roche Holding AG .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,838 1,169,386Sanofi-Aventis SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,092 1,894,663

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Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd.(Sponsored ADR) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57,573 $ 3,234,451

17,922,268

32,462,127

INDUSTRIALS–5.1%AEROSPACE & DEFENSE–0.6%BAE Systems PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106,580 616,852Bombardier, Inc.–Class B . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,400 148,702Goodrich Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,000 385,500Northrop Grumman Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . 19,100 1,066,735Raytheon Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,100 520,352Rolls-Royce Group PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,700 425,973

3,164,114

AIR FREIGHT &LOGISTICS–0.3%

Deutsche Post AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,880 480,851FedEx Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,300 609,185United Parcel Service, Inc.–

Class B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,900 453,223

1,543,259

AIRLINES–0.1%British Airways PLC(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,500 287,230Qantas Airways Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65,664 175,198

462,428

BUILDING PRODUCTS–0.1%Cie de Saint-Gobain . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,700 309,204Masco Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,800 301,058

610,262

COMMERCIAL SERVICES &SUPPLIES–0.0%

Rentokil Initial PLC(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97,600 181,703

CONSTRUCTION &ENGINEERING–0.0%

Quanta Services, Inc.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,300 214,652

ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT–0.8%ABB Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23,200 447,048Cooper Industries Ltd.–Class A . . . . . . 48,700 2,076,568Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . 5,000 20,882Gamesa Corp. Tecnologica SA . . . . . . 17,110 288,258Thomas & Betts Corp.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,900 533,271Vestas Wind Systems A/S(a) . . . . . . . . 5,995 364,992Vestas Wind Systems

A/S (ADR)(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,800 645,540

4,376,559

INDUSTRIALCONGLOMERATES–0.9%

Bidvest Group Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,756 274,681General Electric Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202,900 3,069,877Siemens AG .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,050 830,527Textron, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,300 325,413

4,500,498


MACHINERY–1.5%Atlas Copco AB–Class A . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,354 $ 299,201Caterpillar, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,200 581,298Danaher Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,400 2,135,680Dover Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,800 241,338Illinois Tool Works, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59,100 2,836,209Ingersoll-Rand PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,300 689,782NGK Insulators Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,000 371,780SPX Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,300 235,210Terex Corp.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,300 342,713Vallourec . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 748 135,327Volvo AB–Class B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,100 155,244

8,023,782

MARINE–0.0%Mitsui OSK Lines Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,000 58,109

PROFESSIONALSERVICES–0.2%

Adecco SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,800 430,287Randstad Holding NV(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,200 557,282

987,569

ROAD & RAIL–0.1%East Japan Railway Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,400 215,155Hertz Global Holdings, Inc.(a) . . . . . . . 32,100 382,632

597,787

TRADING COMPANIES &DISTRIBUTORS–0.5%

Mitsubishi Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,500 1,183,157Mitsui & Co. Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63,500 900,818Travis Perkins PLC(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,300 99,975Wolseley PLC(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,500 350,295

2,534,245

TRANSPORTATIONINFRASTRUCTURE–0.0%

Macquarie Infrastructure Group . . . . . 69,600 82,896

27,337,863

CONSUMER STAPLES–3.8%BEVERAGES–0.8%Anheuser-Busch InBev NV .. . . . . . . . . 21,984 1,138,049Anheuser-Busch InBev NV

(ADR)(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,100 525,503Carlsberg A/S–Class B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300 22,084Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . 27,000 572,400Constellation Brands, Inc.–

Class A(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,300 450,819Pepsico, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,350 1,662,880

4,371,735

FOOD & STAPLESRETAILING–1.0%

Aeon Co. Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35,600 288,952Casino Guichard Perrachon SA . . . . . . 3,100 276,195Costco Wholesale Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34,150 2,020,655Koninklijke Ahold NV .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,060 345,261Metro AG .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,000 305,364

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Supervalu, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47,500 $ 603,725Tesco PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141,817 978,366Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,450 718,903

5,537,421

FOOD PRODUCTS–1.2%Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. . . . . . . . . 27,700 867,287Associated British Foods PLC . . . . . . . 9,300 123,294Bunge Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,300 785,109ConAgra Foods, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,400 239,720Dean Foods Co.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,200 472,648Kraft Foods, Inc.–Class A. . . . . . . . . . . . 25,800 701,244Nestle SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,896 1,111,225Sara Lee Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,700 154,686Smithfield Foods, Inc.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,400 568,106Tyson Foods, Inc.–Class A . . . . . . . . . . 44,500 546,015Unilever NV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,800 872,254

6,441,588

HOUSEHOLD PRODUCTS–0.3%Kimberly-Clark Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,300 273,953Procter & Gamble Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,300 1,109,529

1,383,482

PERSONAL PRODUCTS–0.1%L’Oreal SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,724 415,918

TOBACCO–0.4%Altria Group, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,700 720,421British American Tobacco PLC . . . . . 28,088 911,831Reynolds American, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,000 529,700

2,161,952

20,312,096

MATERIALS–3.3%CHEMICALS–1.0%Air Products & Chemicals, Inc. . . . . . . 26,370 2,137,552BASF SE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,500 340,399E.I. Du Pont de Nemours & Co. . . . . . 41,000 1,380,470Huntsman Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18,000 203,220Israel Chemicals Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26,300 345,348Koninklijke Dsm NV .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,700 132,660Syngenta AG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,092 590,797

5,130,446

CONSTRUCTIONMATERIALS–0.0%

CRH PLC (London) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,400 284,268

CONTAINERS &PACKAGING–0.1%

Sonoco Products Co. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,900 289,575

METALS & MINING–2.2%AK Steel Holding Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31,000 661,850Anglo American PLC(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,900 428,745ArcelorMittal (Euronext

Amsterdam) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,460 889,444ArcelorMittal (New York) . . . . . . . . . . . 25,500 1,166,625BHP Billiton Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,400 244,907BHP Billiton PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,056 862,546


Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold,Inc.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22,280 $ 1,788,861

Impala Platinum Holdings Ltd. . . . . . . 5,000 136,671JFE Holdings, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,000 395,288MMC Norilsk Nickel (ADR)(a) . . . . . 21,150 303,503Rio Tinto PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28,398 1,533,402Steel Dynamics, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33,500 593,620Vale SA (Sponsored

ADR)–Class B. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,100 1,570,523Xstrata PLC(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64,280 1,146,504

11,722,489

17,426,778

TELECOMMUNICATIONSERVICES–2.4%

DIVERSIFIEDTELECOMMUNICATIONSERVICES–1.8%

AT&T, Inc. 145,000 4,064,350Bezeq Israeli Telecommunication

Corp. Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113,500 286,166BT Group PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96,870 210,967Deutsche Telekom AG .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30,300 444,496France Telecom SA .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19,100 477,276Nippon Telegraph & Telephone

Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,600 379,229Telecom Corp. of New Zealand

Ltd. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84,385 152,188Telecom Italia SpA (ordinary

shares) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217,300 338,976Telecom Italia SpA (savings

shares) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148,800 165,270Telefonica SA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,943 1,649,759TELUS Corp.–Class A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,100 128,388Verizon Communications, Inc. . . . . . . 32,000 1,060,160

9,357,225

WIRELESSTELECOMMUNICATIONSERVICES–0.6%

Crown Castle InternationalCorp.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,000 273,280

KDDI Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 259,539Softbank Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,800 346,952Sprint Nextel Corp.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 336,100 1,230,126Vodafone Group PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 467,953 1,083,645

3,193,542

12,550,767

UTILITIES–1.0%ELECTRIC UTILITIES–0.7%American Electric Power Co., Inc. . . 15,000 521,850E.ON AG .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16,426 689,466Edison International . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,600 612,128Electricite de France . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,900 469,523Enel SpA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40,600 235,049Entergy Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 900 73,656Pepco Holdings, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32,400 545,940

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Pinnacle West Capital Corp. . . . . . . . . 5,700 $ 208,506The Tokyo Electric Power Co.,

Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8,300 208,317

3,564,435

INDEPENDENT POWERPRODUCERS & ENERGYTRADERS–0.0%

RRI Energy, Inc.(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37,200 212,784

MULTI-UTILITIES–0.3%Ameren Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,100 114,595Centrica PLC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77,585 351,425CMS Energy Corp. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,900 186,354NiSource, Inc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39,400 605,972RWE AG .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,400 232,902

1,491,248

5,268,467

Total Common Stocks(cost $283,543,181) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 341,107,434

PrincipalAmount

(000)

CORPORATES–INVESTMENTGRADES–10.8%

INDUSTRIAL–5.7%BASIC–0.7%Alcoa, Inc.

6.75%, 7/15/18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 145 147,910ArcelorMittal

6.125%, 6/01/18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330 340,506ArcelorMittal USA, Inc.

6.50%, 4/15/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 112,066BHP Billiton Finance USA Ltd.

7.25%, 3/01/16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203 231,357The Dow Chemical Co.

7.375%, 11/01/29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 16,3787.60%, 5/15/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 221,8898.55%, 5/15/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 549 655,037

Eastman Chemical5.50%, 11/15/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 94,703

EI Du Pont de Nemours & Co.5.875%, 1/15/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 194,416

Freeport-McMoRan Copper &Gold, Inc.8.25%, 4/01/15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 174,4008.375%, 4/01/17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 202,575

Inco Ltd.7.75%, 5/15/12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 88,022

International Paper Co.5.30%, 4/01/15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 225,7687.50%, 8/15/21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 168,0717.95%, 6/15/18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 219,148

Packaging Corp. of America5.75%, 8/01/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 32,151

PPG Industries, Inc.5.75%, 3/15/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 266,922

Company

PrincipalAmount

(000) U.S. $ Value

Rio Tinto Finance USA Ltd.6.50%, 7/15/18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 345 $ 378,976

3,770,295CAPITAL GOODS–0.4%Boeing Co.

6.00%, 3/15/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 320,123Holcim US Finance Sarl & Cie

SCS6.00%, 12/30/19(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 41,636

John Deere Capital Corp.5.25%, 10/01/12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300 323,981

Lafarge SA6.15%, 7/15/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 179,238

Owens Corning, Inc.6.50%, 12/01/16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 182,285

Republic Services, Inc.5.25%, 11/15/21(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 162,2325.50%, 9/15/19(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 236,600

Tyco International Finance SA6.00%, 11/15/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 219,0778.50%, 1/15/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 169,085

United Technologies Corp.4.875%, 5/01/15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 194,285

Vulcan Materials Co.5.60%, 11/30/12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 95,720

2,124,262COMMUNICATIONS–

MEDIA–0.7%BSKYB Finance UK PLC

5.625%, 10/15/15(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 191,002CBS Corp.

8.875%, 5/15/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330 394,787Comcast Cable Communications

Holdings, Inc.9.455%, 11/15/22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 231,506

Comcast Corp.5.30%, 1/15/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 245,4785.50%, 3/15/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 287,780

DirecTV Holdings LLC /DirecTV Financing Co., Inc.4.75%, 10/01/14(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 157,9976.375%, 6/15/15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 41,550

News America Holdings, Inc.9.25%, 2/01/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 168,011

News America, Inc.6.55%, 3/15/33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 256,058

Reed Elsevier Capital, Inc.8.625%, 1/15/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 170,348

RR Donnelley & Sons Co.4.95%, 4/01/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 25,0075.50%, 5/15/15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 116,18611.25%, 2/01/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 237,113

Time Warner Cable, Inc.7.50%, 4/01/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 167,066

Time Warner Entertainment Co.8.375%, 3/15/23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 368,408

WPP Finance UK5.875%, 6/15/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 154,9068.00%, 9/15/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350 398,041

3,611,244

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Company

PrincipalAmount

(000) U.S. $ Value

COMMUNICATIONS–TELECOMMUNICATIONS–1.0%

AT&T Corp.7.30%, 11/15/11(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 125 $ 137,6348.00%, 11/15/31(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 18,308

BellSouth Corp.5.20%, 9/15/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 100,673

British Telecommunications PLC5.15%, 1/15/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 720 750,8069.125%, 12/15/10(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 257,117

Embarq Corp.7.082%, 6/01/16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 658 726,812

New Cingular Wireless Services,Inc.7.875%, 3/01/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 295,459

Pacific Bell Telephone Co.6.625%, 10/15/34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 227,895

Qwest Corp.7.50%, 10/01/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 306,4317.875%, 9/01/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 277,588

Telecom Italia Capital SA4.00%, 1/15/10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440 440,3396.00%, 9/30/34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 61,4706.175%, 6/18/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 330,5876.375%, 11/15/33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60 59,155

Telus Corp.8.00%, 6/01/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46 49,800

US Cellular Corp.6.70%, 12/15/33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 245,862

Verizon Communications, Inc.4.90%, 9/15/15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 178,3155.25%, 4/15/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 242,543

Verizon New Jersey, Inc.Series A5.875%, 1/17/12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 164,078

Vodafone Group PLC5.50%, 6/15/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 232,0257.75%, 2/15/10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 85,6497.875%, 2/15/30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 119,859

5,308,405

CONSUMER CYCLICAL–AUTOMOTIVE–0.2%

Daimler Finance North AmericaLLC5.75%, 9/08/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 141,8067.30%, 1/15/12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166 180,4657.75%, 1/18/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 65,917

Harley-Davidson Funding Corp.5.75%, 12/15/14(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 197,977

Volvo Treasury AB5.95%, 4/01/15(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 314,734

900,899

CONSUMER CYCLICAL–ENTERTAINMENT–0.3%

Time Warner, Inc.6.875%, 5/01/12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 27,3697.625%, 4/15/31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 400,762

Company

PrincipalAmount

(000) U.S. $ Value

Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.8.375%, 7/01/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 225 $ 256,396

Viacom, Inc.5.625%, 9/15/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390 407,200

The Walt Disney Co.5.50%, 3/15/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 257,140

1,348,867

CONSUMER CYCLICAL–OTHER–0.1%

Marriott International, Inc.Series J5.625%, 2/15/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 221,640

MDC Holdings, Inc.5.50%, 5/15/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 140,658

Toll Brothers Finance Corp.6.875%, 11/15/12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 11,521

373,819

CONSUMER CYCLICAL–RETAILERS–0.0%

CVS Caremark Corp.6.125%, 8/15/16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 107,683

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.4.25%, 4/15/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 132,534

240,217

CONSUMER NON-CYCLICAL–1.1%

Altria Group, Inc.9.70%, 11/10/18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 259,595

Avon Products, Inc.6.50%, 3/01/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 340,861

Bottling Group LLC6.95%, 3/15/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 304,911

Bunge Ltd. Finance Corp.5.10%, 7/15/15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 68,4105.875%, 5/15/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 187,3668.50%, 6/15/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153 174,406

Cadbury Schweppes US FinanceLLC5.125%, 10/01/13(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 270,395

Campbell Soup Co.6.75%, 2/15/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 276,636

The Coca-Cola Co.5.35%, 11/15/17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 301,622

ConAgra Foods, Inc.7.875%, 9/15/10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3,141

Delhaize Group SA5.875%, 2/01/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 112,771

Diageo Capital PLC7.375%, 1/15/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 306,556

Fisher Scientific International, Inc.6.125%, 7/01/15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 202,125

Fortune Brands, Inc.3.00%, 6/01/12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 277,5114.875%, 12/01/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 205,308

Johnson & Johnson5.55%, 8/15/17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 297,812

14


Company

PrincipalAmount

(000) U.S. $ Value

Kraft Foods, Inc.5.25%, 10/01/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 179 $ 189,1566.25%, 6/01/12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 361,040

The Kroger Co.6.80%, 12/15/18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79 87,765

Pepsico, Inc.4.65%, 2/15/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 304,427

Pfizer, Inc.5.35%, 3/15/15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295 322,407

The Procter & Gamble Co.4.70%, 2/15/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294 300,963

Reynolds American, Inc.7.25%, 6/01/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 163,6547.625%, 6/01/16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 272,544

Safeway, Inc.4.95%, 8/16/10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 92,3706.50%, 3/01/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 15,854

Whirlpool Corp.8.60%, 5/01/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 50,952

Wyeth5.50%, 2/01/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 228,790

5,979,348

ENERGY–0.6%Amerada Hess Corp.

7.875%, 10/01/29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 95,948Anadarko Petroleum Corp.

5.95%, 9/15/16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 417 451,0686.45%, 9/15/36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109 113,836

Apache Corp.5.25%, 4/15/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 176,827

Baker Hughes, Inc.6.50%, 11/15/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 169,316

Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.5.15%, 2/01/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 106,430

Conoco, Inc.6.95%, 4/15/29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 74,814

Hess Corp.8.125%, 2/15/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 56,680

Nabors Industries, Inc.9.25%, 1/15/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 385,786

Noble Energy, Inc.8.25%, 3/01/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303 362,503

The Premcor Refining Group, Inc.7.50%, 6/15/15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 159,817

Valero Energy Corp.4.75%, 6/15/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 81,8786.875%, 4/15/12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290 316,646

Weatherford International Ltd.5.15%, 3/15/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 130,9049.625%, 3/01/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 355,310

3,037,763

OTHER INDUSTRIAL–0.1%Noble Group Ltd.

6.75%, 1/29/20(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445 456,681

SERVICES–0.0%The Western Union Co.

5.93%, 10/01/16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 97,085

Company

PrincipalAmount

(000) U.S. $ Value

TECHNOLOGY–0.4%Cisco Systems, Inc.

5.25%, 2/22/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 280 $ 293,812Computer Sciences Corp.

5.50%, 3/15/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 190,831Dell, Inc.

5.625%, 4/15/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 201,547Electronic Data Systems Corp.

Series B6.00%, 8/01/13(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 375 414,532

Motorola, Inc.6.50%, 9/01/25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 152,0427.50%, 5/15/25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 33,4907.625%, 11/15/10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49 50,765

Oracle Corp.4.95%, 4/15/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 157,7405.25%, 1/15/16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 390 421,146

Xerox Corp.7.625%, 6/15/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 56,0988.25%, 5/15/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 321,194

2,293,197

TRANSPORTATION–AIRLINES–0.1%

Southwest Airlines Co.5.25%, 10/01/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307 310,9515.75%, 12/15/16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 153,189

464,140

TRANSPORTATION–RAILROADS–0.0%

Canadian Pacific Railway Co.6.50%, 5/15/18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58 62,675

CSX Corp.5.50%, 8/01/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 37,595

100,270

30,106,492

FINANCIALINSTITUTIONS–3.8%

BANKING–2.3%American Express Co.

7.25%, 5/20/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310 349,7958.125%, 5/20/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325 385,145

ANZ National International Ltd.6.20%, 7/19/13(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 368,661

Bank of America Corp.4.50%, 8/01/10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 265,4394.875%, 1/15/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 296,3887.375%, 5/15/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 385,803

Barclays Bank PLC5.45%, 9/12/12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620 670,4908.55%, 6/15/11(b)(d) . . . . . . . . . . . 50 46,000

BBVA International Preferred SAUnipersonal5.919%, 4/18/17(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 104,650

The Bear Stearns Co., Inc.5.55%, 1/22/17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290 290,0855.70%, 11/15/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 209,063

15


Company

PrincipalAmount

(000) U.S. $ Value

Citigroup, Inc.4.625%, 8/03/10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 175 $ 178,5595.50%, 4/11/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 238,4566.50%, 8/19/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 276,9508.50%, 5/22/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475 548,508

Compass Bank5.50%, 4/01/20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 198,329

Countrywide Financial Corp.5.80%, 6/07/12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 101,9056.25%, 5/15/16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 93,579

Countrywide Home Loans, Inc.Series L4.00%, 3/22/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 60,256

Credit Agricole SA8.375%, 10/13/19(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . 236 250,160

Credit Suisse USA, Inc.5.50%, 8/15/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 130,363

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.4.75%, 7/15/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 209,2475.125%, 1/15/15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 147,1056.00%, 5/01/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305 333,5997.50%, 2/15/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 550 641,192

JP Morgan Chase & Co.6.75%, 2/01/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 168,776

JPMorgan Chase Capital XXVSeries Y6.80%, 10/01/37 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 50,672

Marshall & Ilsley Bank4.85%, 6/16/15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 196,0885.00%, 1/17/17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 159,460

Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.6.05%, 5/16/16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 247,204

Morgan Stanley5.05%, 1/21/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 103,7195.30%, 3/01/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 142,2895.625%, 1/09/12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 221,6186.60%, 4/01/12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 157,7596.625%, 4/01/18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 373,003

National Capital Trust II5.486%, 3/23/15(b)(d) . . . . . . . . . . 91 72,670

National City Bank of ClevelandOhio6.25%, 3/15/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 261,067

North Fork Bancorporation, Inc.5.875%, 8/15/12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 103,764

Rabobank Nederland11.00%, 6/30/19(b)(d) . . . . . . . . . . 95 115,829

Regions Financial Corp.6.375%, 5/15/12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 261,909

Royal Bank of Scotland GroupPLC5.00%, 10/01/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 181,172

SouthTrust Corp.5.80%, 6/15/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 235,712

Sovereign Bancorp, Inc.4.80%, 9/01/10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 158,259

UBS Preferred Funding Trust I8.622%, 10/01/10(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 37,219

Company

PrincipalAmount

(000) U.S. $ Value

UBS Preferred Funding Trust II7.247%, 6/26/11(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 250 $ 220,785

Unicredito Italiano CapitalTrust II9.20%, 10/05/10(b)(d) . . . . . . . . . . 330 306,900

Union Bank of California5.95%, 5/11/16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 248,312

Union Planters Corp.7.75%, 3/01/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 181,947

Wachovia Corp.5.50%, 5/01/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320 339,947

Wells Fargo & Co.4.20%, 1/15/10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 85,0745.625%, 12/11/17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565 587,688

11,998,569

BROKERAGE–0.0%Lazard Group

6.85%, 6/15/17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 161,022

FINANCE–0.3%General Electric Capital Corp.

4.80%, 5/01/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 329,2605.625%, 5/01/18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480 491,876Series A4.375%, 11/21/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 26,037

HSBC Finance Corp.7.00%, 5/15/12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 135,920

International Lease Finance Corp.5.65%, 6/01/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 21,161

SLM Corp.Series A5.375%, 1/15/13–5/15/14 . . . . . . . 650 607,505

1,611,759

INSURANCE–1.0%Aetna, Inc.

6.00%, 6/15/16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 146,983Allied World Assurance Co.

Holdings Ltd.7.50%, 8/01/16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 170,855

The Allstate Corp.6.125%, 5/15/37(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 204,450

Allstate Life Global FundingTrusts5.375%, 4/30/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 165,459

Assurant, Inc.5.625%, 2/15/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 138,418

Berkshire Hathaway FinanceCorp.4.20%, 12/15/10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 119,057

Coventry Health Care, Inc.5.95%, 3/15/17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 81,6106.125%, 1/15/15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 38,2096.30%, 8/15/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 268,978

Genworth Financial, Inc.6.515%, 5/22/18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 288,254

Guardian Life Insurance7.375%, 9/30/39(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 214,781

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Company

PrincipalAmount

(000) U.S. $ Value

Humana, Inc.6.30%, 8/01/18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 55 $ 53,2676.45%, 6/01/16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 40,4327.20%, 6/15/18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285 291,480

Liberty Mutual Group, Inc.5.75%, 3/15/14(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 162,636

Lincoln National Corp.8.75%, 7/01/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98 111,975

Massachusetts Mutual LifeInsurance Co.8.875%, 6/01/39(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 226,893

MetLife, Inc.7.717%, 2/15/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 131,61510.75%, 8/01/39 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 172,400

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co.9.375%, 8/15/39(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 353,647

Principal Financial Group, Inc.7.875%, 5/15/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 286,961

Prudential Financial, Inc.5.15%, 1/15/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 215,6566.20%, 1/15/15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 48,4148.875%, 6/15/68 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 180,200Series D7.375%, 6/15/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 39,241

UnitedHealth Group, Inc.5.25%, 3/15/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 290,1386.00%, 2/15/18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 278,896

WellPoint, Inc.5.25%, 1/15/16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 50,4715.875%, 6/15/17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 41,2107.00%, 2/15/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 89,474

XL Capital Ltd.5.25%, 9/15/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 132,208Series E6.50%, 4/15/17(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 184,975

5,219,243

REITS–0.2%ERP Operating LP

5.25%, 9/15/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 106,790HCP, Inc.

5.95%, 9/15/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 350,784Healthcare Realty Trust, Inc.

5.125%, 4/01/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 126,4008.125%, 5/01/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225 236,369

Nationwide Health Properties, Inc.6.50%, 7/15/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 187,156

Simon Property Group LP5.00%, 3/01/12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 93,0255.625%, 8/15/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 184,360

1,284,884

20,275,477

UTILITY–0.9%ELECTRIC–0.6%Allegheny Energy Supply

5.75%, 10/15/19(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 420 407,958

Company

PrincipalAmount

(000) U.S. $ Value

Ameren Corp.8.875%, 5/15/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 240 $ 269,574

Carolina Power & Light Co.6.50%, 7/15/12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 301,504

FirstEnergy Corp.Series B6.45%, 11/15/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 13,939Series C7.375%, 11/15/31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 298,073

FPL Group Capital, Inc.6.35%, 10/01/66(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 50,8756.65%, 6/15/67(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 158,950

MidAmerican Energy HoldingsCo.5.875%, 10/01/12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 185,146

Nisource Finance Corp.6.80%, 1/15/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330 352,9187.875%, 11/15/10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 41,934

Pacific Gas & Electric Co.4.80%, 3/01/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 212,4006.05%, 3/01/34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 39,673

Progress Energy, Inc.7.10%, 3/01/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19 20,110

Public Service Company ofColoradoSeries 107.875%, 10/01/12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 149,161

The Southern Co.Series A5.30%, 1/15/12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114 122,142

SPI Electricity & Gas AustraliaHoldings Pty Ltd.6.15%, 11/15/13(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 488 509,295

Union Electric Co.6.70%, 2/01/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 49,682

3,183,334

NATURAL GAS–0.3%Duke Energy Field Services Corp.

7.875%, 8/16/10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 15,594Energy Transfer Partners LP

6.70%, 7/01/18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 135,9797.50%, 7/01/38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410 449,229

Enterprise Products OperatingLLCSeries G5.60%, 10/15/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 133,104

Texas Eastern Transmission Corp.7.30%, 12/01/10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 168,242

TransCanada Pipelines Ltd.6.35%, 5/15/67(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 112,592

Williams Co., Inc.7.125%, 9/01/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 229,7727.875%, 9/01/21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 245,462

1,489,974

OTHER UTILITY–0.0%Veolia Environnement

6.00%, 6/01/18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 221,746

4,895,054

17


Company

PrincipalAmount

(000) U.S. $ Value

NON CORPORATESECTORS–0.4%

AGENCIES–NOTGOVERNMENTGUARANTEED–0.4%

Gaz Capital SA6.212%, 11/22/16(b) . . . . . . . . . $ 920 $ 880,900

Petrobras International Finance5.75%, 1/20/20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680 691,755

TransCapitalInvest Ltd. forOJSC AK Transneft8.70%, 8/07/18(b) . . . . . . . . . . . 470 541,675

2,114,330

Total Corporates–InvestmentGrades(cost $54,564,904) . . . . . . . . . . . 57,391,353

GOVERNMENTS–TREASURIES–9.8%

TREASURIES–9.8%CANADA–0.8%Canadian Government Bond

3.75%, 6/01/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . CAD 4,235 4,093,881

UNITED STATES–9.0%U.S. Treasury Bonds

3.75%, 11/15/18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 6,836 6,835,0674.50%, 2/15/36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,035 5,944,475

U.S. Treasury Notes0.875%, 5/31/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,590 5,596,7691.75%, 11/15/11–1/31/14 . . . 22,405 22,372,9382.375%, 8/31/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,130 7,077,637

47,826,886

Total Governments–Treasuries(cost $51,967,943) . . . . . . . . . . . 51,920,767

MORTGAGE PASS-THRU’S–5.2%

AGENCY FIXED RATE30-YEAR–4.8%

Federal Home Loan MortgageCorp. GoldSeries 20054.50%, 8/01/35–10/01/35 . . . 1,645 1,647,4075.50%, 1/01/35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,696 1,784,452Series 20075.50%, 7/01/35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179 188,551Series 20086.50%, 5/01/35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 71,285

Federal National MortgageAssociation6.00%, TBA .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,695 3,913,234Series 20035.00%, 11/01/33 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 532 548,222Series 20045.50%, 2/01/34–11/01/34 . . . 743 781,0786.00%, 9/01/34–11/01/34 . . . 638 680,905Series 20054.50%, 8/01/35 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 583 585,125

Company

PrincipalAmount

(000) U.S. $ Value

Series 20065.00%, 2/01/36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 2,000 $ 2,056,7996.00%, 3/01/36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 283 301,298Series 20074.50%, 9/01/35–1/01/36 . . . . . . . . 1,698 1,707,0605.00%, 11/01/35–7/01/36 . . . . . . . 566 582,4685.50%, 1/01/37–8/01/37 . . . . . . . . 2,831 2,975,299Series 20085.50%, 8/01/37 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,327 1,394,1996.00%, 3/01/37 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,695 2,867,269

Government National MortgageAssociation5.50%, TBA.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,450 1,518,8756.00%, TBA.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 775 818,8366.50%, TBA.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 850 905,781

25,328,143

AGENCY ARMS–0.4%Federal Home Loan Mortgage

Corp.Series 20085.619%, 11/01/37(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 315,533

Federal National MortgageAssociationSeries 20065.45%, 2/01/36(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 337,9515.809%, 11/01/36(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 89,0836.177%, 3/01/36(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 230,276Series 20074.734%, 3/01/34(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 490 510,3564.985%, 8/01/37(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 914 954,397

2,437,596

Total Mortgage Pass-Thru’s(cost $27,038,993) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27,765,739

COMMERCIAL MORTGAGE-BACKED SECURITIES–2.8%

NON-AGENCY FIXED RATECMBS–2.8%

Banc of America CommercialMortgage, Inc.Series 2005-6, Class A45.179%, 9/10/47 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 309,356Series 2006-5, Class A45.414%, 9/10/47 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 333,432

Bear Stearns CommercialMortgage Securities, Inc.Series 2006-PW12, Class A45.719%, 9/11/38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 253,859Series 2007-PW18, Class A45.70%, 6/11/50 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 244,343

Citigroup Commercial MortgageTrustSeries 2004-C1, Class A45.37%, 4/15/40 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 110,076Series 2008-C7, Class A46.299%, 12/10/49 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440 395,095

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Company

PrincipalAmount

(000) U.S. $ Value

Commercial Mortgage PassThrough CertificatesSeries 2006-C8, Class A45.306%, 12/10/46 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 130 $ 110,951Series 2007-C9, Class A45.816%, 12/10/49 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650 589,467

Credit Suisse Mortgage CapitalCertificatesSeries 2006-C3, Class A35.826%, 6/15/38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620 532,805Series 2006-C4, Class A35.467%, 9/15/39 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 201,283Series 2006-C5, Class A35.311%, 12/15/39 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 287,804

CS First Boston MortgageSecurities Corp.Series 2004-C1, Class A44.75%, 1/15/37 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 69,119Series 2005-C1, Class A45.014%, 2/15/38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260 255,168

Greenwich Capital CommercialFunding Corp.Series 2005-GG3, Class A44.799%, 8/10/42 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 82,055Series 2005-GG5, Class AJ5.30%, 4/10/37 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 137,313Series 2007-GG9, Class A25.381%, 3/10/39 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 345 349,502Series 2007-GG9, Class A45.444%, 3/10/39 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410 362,253

GS Mortgage Securities Corp. IISeries 2004-GG2, Class A65.396%, 8/10/38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 78,614

JP Morgan Chase CommercialMortgage Securities Corp.Series 2005-CB11, Class A45.335%, 8/12/37 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 167,759Series 2006-CB14, Class A45.481%, 12/12/44 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 303,412Series 2006-CB15, Class A45.814%, 6/12/43 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 595 572,593Series 2006-CB16, Class A45.552%, 5/12/45 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335 318,423Series 2006-CB17, Class A45.429%, 12/12/43 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 350 330,626Series 2007-CB18, Class A46.50%, 6/12/47 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 445 387,669Series 2007-LD11, Class A45.818%, 6/15/49 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770 670,555Series 2007-LDPX, Class A35.42%, 1/15/49 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475 400,689

LB-UBS Commercial MortgageTrustSeries 2004-C4, Class A45.224%, 6/15/29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 39,854Series 2006-C1, Class A45.156%, 2/15/31 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,095 1,060,039

Company

PrincipalAmount

(000) U.S. $ Value

Series 2006-C3, Class A45.661%, 3/15/39 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 285 $ 264,016Series 2006-C4, Class A45.882%, 6/15/38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 260,325Series 2006-C6, Class A45.372%, 9/15/39 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660 629,147Series 2006-C7, Class A35.347%, 11/15/38 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 178,758Series 2007-C1, Class A45.424%, 2/15/40 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 173,907Series 2008-C1, Class A26.149%, 4/15/41 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 650 601,657

Merrill Lynch Mortgage TrustSeries 2005-CKI1, Class A65.233%, 11/12/37 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40 39,596

Merrill Lynch/CountrywideCommercial Mortgage TrustSeries 2006-2, Class A45.909%, 6/12/46 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 107,989Series 2006-3, Class A45.414%, 7/12/46 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 480 437,512Series 2006-4, Class AM5.204%, 12/12/49 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 191,048Series 2007-9, Class A45.70%, 9/12/49 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 440 373,384

Morgan Stanley Capital ISeries 2004-HQ4, Class A54.59%, 4/14/40 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 189,059Series 2005-HQ5, Class A45.168%, 1/14/15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 495 487,905Series 2006-IQ12, Class A45.332%, 12/15/43 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 780 723,803Series 2007-IQ15, Class A45.88%, 6/11/49 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90 80,230Series 2007-T27, Class A45.649%, 6/11/42 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 202,750

Wachovia Bank CommercialMortgage TrustSeries 2006-C27, Class A35.765%, 7/15/45 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 630 570,618Series 2007-C31, Class A45.509%, 4/15/47 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 152,467Series 2007-C32, Class A35.74%, 6/15/49 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 625 510,307

15,128,592

NON-AGENCY FLOATINGRATE CMBS–0.0%

GS Mortgage Securities Corp. IISeries 2007-EOP, Class E0.675%, 3/06/20(b)(e) . . . . . . . . . . 75 63,954

Total Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities(cost $16,136,274) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15,192,546

AGENCIES–1.9%AGENCY DEBENTURES–1.9%Citigroup Funding, Inc.–FDIC

Insured0.198%, 5/05/11(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,175 2,173,662

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Company

PrincipalAmount

(000) U.S. $ Value

Federal Home Loan Bank5.00%, 11/17/17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 3,655 $ 3,953,683

Federal Home Loan MortgageCorp.5.125%, 11/17/17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,539 1,675,565

Federal National MortgageAssociation6.25%, 5/15/29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 740 846,2266.625%, 11/15/30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,092 1,312,374

Total Agencies(cost $9,938,644) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,961,510

CORPORATES–NON-INVESTMENTGRADES–1.2%

INDUSTRIAL–0.7%BASIC–0.2%Ineos Group Holdings PLC

8.50%, 2/15/16(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 50,437Steel Capital SA for OAO

Severstal9.75%, 7/29/13(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 101,380

Stora Enso Oyj7.375%, 5/15/11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 178,998

United States Steel Corp.5.65%, 6/01/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 426 423,8736.05%, 6/01/17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 9,547

Westvaco Corp.8.20%, 1/15/30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 15,432

Weyerhaeuser Co.7.375%, 3/15/32 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 104,288

883,955

CAPITAL GOODS–0.2%Case New Holland, Inc.

7.125%, 3/01/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 86,275Hanson Australia Funding Ltd.

5.25%, 3/15/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120 118,200Masco Corp.

6.125%, 10/03/16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 530 505,059Mohawk Industries, Inc.

6.875%, 1/15/16(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245 243,775Textron Financial Corp.

4.60%, 5/03/10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27 26,9935.40%, 4/28/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 52,975

1,033,277

COMMUNICATIONS–MEDIA–0.1%Cablevision Systems Corp.

Series B8.00%, 4/15/12(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 47,587

Clear Channel Communications,Inc.5.50%, 9/15/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 121,175

CSC Holdings, Inc.8.50%, 4/15/14(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 117,150

Univision Communications, Inc.12.00%, 7/01/14(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 39,645

325,557

Company

PrincipalAmount

(000) U.S. $ Value

COMMUNICATIONS–TELECOMMUNICATIONS–0.0%

Qwest CommunicationsInternational, Inc.7.50%, 2/15/14(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 25 $ 25,094Series B7.50%, 2/15/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 15,056

Windstream Corp.7.875%, 11/01/17(b) . . . . . . . . . . 120 118,500

158,650

CONSUMER CYCLICAL–AUTOMOTIVE–0.0%

The Goodyear Tire &Rubber Co.9.00%, 7/01/15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 166,400

CONSUMER CYCLICAL–OTHER–0.1%

Starwood Hotels & ResortsWorldwide, Inc.6.25%, 2/15/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 257,8127.875%, 5/01/12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 228,695

Wyndham Worldwide Corp.6.00%, 12/01/16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 65,212

551,719

CONSUMER CYCLICAL–RETAILERS–0.0%

Limited Brands, Inc.6.90%, 7/15/17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 24,969

CONSUMER NON- CYCLICAL–0.1%Bausch & Lomb, Inc.

9.875%, 11/01/15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 137,150HCA, Inc.

7.875%, 2/15/20(b) . . . . . . . . . . . 115 119,7448.50%, 4/15/19(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 37,712

294,606

ENERGY–0.0%Tesoro Corp.

6.50%, 6/01/17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 172,050

TECHNOLOGY–0.0%Flextronics International Ltd.

6.50%, 5/15/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 140,350

TRANSPORTATION–AIRLINES–0.0%

UAL Pass Through TrustSeries 071A6.636%, 7/02/22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 65,766

3,817,299


BANKING–0.2%ABN Amro Bank NV

4.31%, 3/10/16(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . EUR 90 62,897BankAmerica Capital II

Series 28.00%, 12/15/26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 94 92,120

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Company

PrincipalAmount

(000) U.S. $ Value

Commerzbank Capital FundingTrust I5.012%, 4/12/16(d) . . . . . . . . . . . EUR 200 $ 133,320

Dexia Credit Local4.30%, 11/18/15(d) . . . . . . . . . . . 300 193,529

Lbg Capital No.1 PLC8.00%, 12/29/49(b) . . . . . . . . . . . $ 615 473,550

Northern Rock PLC5.75%, 4/30/14(b)(d) . . . . . . . . . . GBP 445 56,181

RBS Capital Trust III5.512%, 9/30/14(d) . . . . . . . . . . . $ 125 62,500

Zions Bancorporation5.50%, 11/16/15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 14,140

1,088,237

BROKERAGE–0.0%Lehman Brothers Holdings, Inc.

5.00%, 1/14/11(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 15,6006.20%, 9/26/14(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 6,4357.875%, 11/01/09–8/15/10(f) . 370 72,150Series G4.80%, 3/13/14(f) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42 8,190

102,375

FINANCE–0.0%American General Finance

Corp.5.85%, 6/01/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 79,020Series I4.875%, 7/15/12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 36,885

115,905

INSURANCE–0.1%ING Capital Funding Trust III

8.439%, 12/31/10(d) . . . . . . . . . . 200 172,000ING Groep NV

5.775%, 12/08/15(d) . . . . . . . . . . 65 48,015Liberty Mutual Group, Inc.

7.80%, 3/15/37(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 53,625

273,640

REITS–0.0%AMR Real Estate PTR/FIN

7.125%, 2/15/13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45 45,900

1,626,057

UTILITY–0.2%ELECTRIC–0.2%The AES Corp.

7.75%, 3/01/14–10/15/15 . . . . . 160 162,400Dynegy Holdings, Inc.

8.375%, 5/01/16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 109,250Edison Mission Energy

7.00%, 5/15/17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 75,050NRG Energy, Inc.

7.25%, 2/01/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270 273,3757.375%, 2/01/16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 35,044

Company

PrincipalAmount

(000) U.S. $ Value

RRI Energy, Inc.7.625%, 6/15/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 95 $ 94,050

749,169

Total Corporates–Non-InvestmentGrades(cost $6,555,578) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,192,525

ASSET-BACKEDSECURITIES–0.5%

CREDIT CARDS–FLOATINGRATE–0.2%

Chase Issuance TrustSeries 2007-A1, Class A10.253%, 3/15/13(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 640 637,422

MBNA Credit Card Master NoteTrustSeries 2005-A9, Class A90.273%, 4/15/13(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 660 655,797

1,293,219

HOME EQUITY LOANS–FLOATING RATE–0.2%

Bear Stearns Asset BackedSecurities, Inc.Series 2007-HE3, Class M10.681%, 4/25/37(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100 1,924

Credit-Based Asset Servicing andSecuritization LLCSeries 2003-CB1, Class AF3.95%, 1/25/33(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 169,893

HFC Home Equity Loan AssetBacked CertificatesSeries 2007-1, Class M10.613%, 3/20/36(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365 167,461

Home Equity Asset TrustSeries 2007-3, Class M10.581%, 8/25/37(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275 9,975

Indymac Residential AssetBacked TrustSeries 2006-D, Class 2A20.341%, 11/25/36(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . 252 179,323

Newcastle Mortgage SecuritiesTrustSeries 2007-1, Class 2A10.361%, 4/25/37(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 119,538

Option One Mortgage Loan TrustSeries 2007-2, Class M10.591%, 3/25/37(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 1,234

RAAC SeriesSeries 2006-SP3, Class A10.311%, 8/25/36(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 15,774

Residential Asset Securities Corp.Series 2003-KS3, Class A20.831%, 5/25/33(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 939

Soundview Home Equity LoanTrustSeries 2007-OPT2, Class 2A20.361%, 7/25/37(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300 141,060

807,121

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Company

PrincipalAmount

(000) U.S. $ Value

CREDIT CARDS–FIXEDRATE–0.1%

Citibank Credit Card IssuanceTrustSeries 2009-A5, Class A52.25%, 12/23/14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 560 $ 554,369

HOME EQUITY LOANS–FIXED RATE–0.0%

Countrywide Asset-BackedCertificatesSeries 2007-S1, Class A35.81%, 11/25/36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 511 172,018

Home Equity Mortgage TrustSeries 2005-4, Class A34.742%, 1/25/36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 3,474

175,492

Total Asset-Backed Securities(cost $4,122,127) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,830,201

GOVERNMENTS–SOVEREIGNBONDS–0.5%

BRAZIL–0.0%Republic of Brazil

8.25%, 1/20/34 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190 241,775

CROATIA–0.1%Republic of Croatia

6.75%, 11/05/19(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 450 484,684

LITHUANIA–0.1%Republic of Lithuania

6.75%, 1/15/15(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 435 442,880

PERU–0.1%Republic of Peru

8.375%, 5/03/16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 217,3509.875%, 2/06/15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 410 518,650

736,000

POLAND–0.1%Poland Government International

Bond6.375%, 7/15/19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 300 325,350

RUSSIA–0.1%Russian Federation

7.50%, 3/31/30(b)(c) . . . . . . . . . . . . 291 328,918

Total Governments–SovereignBonds(cost $2,329,698) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,559,607

GOVERNMENTS–SOVEREIGNAGENCIES–0.4%

GOVERNMENTS–SOVEREIGNAGENCIES–0.4%

UNITED KINGDOM–0.4%The Royal Bank of Scotland

PLC 1.45%, 10/20/11(b) . . . . . . . . 1,338 1,335,0062.625%, 5/11/12(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 695 704,950

Total Governments–SovereignAgencies(cost $2,031,986) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,039,956

Company

PrincipalAmount

(000) U.S. $ Value

INFLATION-LINKEDSECURITIES–0.3%

UNITED STATES–0.3%U.S. Treasury Notes

3.00%, 7/15/12 (TIPS)(cost $1,800,923) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 1,719 $ 1,848,473

QUASI-SOVEREIGNS–0.2%RUSSIA–0.2%RSHB Capital SA for

OJSC RussianAgricultural Bank7.75%, 5/29/18(b)(cost $813,234) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 810 885,938

SharesPREFERRED STOCKS–0.2%UTILITY–0.1%OTHER UTILITY–0.1%Dte Energy Trust I

7.80% .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20,000 519,800

INDUSTRIAL–0.1%COMMUNICATIONS–

TELECOMMUNICATIONS–0.1%Centaur Funding Corp.

9.08%(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200 203,250


BANKING–0.0%Royal Bank of Scotland Group

PLC5.75% .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,000 129,300

NON CORPORATESECTORS–0.0%

AGENCIES–GOVERNMENTSPONSORED–0.0%

Federal Home Loan MortgageCorp.Series Z8.375%(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4,750 4,987

Federal National MortgageAssociation8.25%(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,750 6,325

11,312

Total Preferred Stocks(cost $1,245,116) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 863,662

PrincipalAmount

(000)CMOS–0.1%NON-AGENCY ARMS–0.1%Bear Stearns Alt-A Trust

Series 2006-1, Class 22A15.203%, 2/25/36(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 167 96,995Series 2006-3, Class 22A15.873%, 5/25/36(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223 137,494Series 2007-1, Class 21A15.56%, 1/25/47(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 30,367

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Company

PrincipalAmount

(000) U.S. $ Value

Citigroup Mortgage Loan Trust,Inc.Series 2005-2, Class 1A45.128%, 5/25/35(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 93 $ 78,853Series 2006-AR1, Class 3A15.50%, 3/25/36(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 70,981

Deutsche Mortgage Securities,Inc.Series 2005-WF1, Class 1A15.158%, 6/26/35(b)(d) . . . . . . . . . . 4 3,864

Indymac Index Mortgage LoanTrustSeries 2006-AR7, Class 4A15.856%, 5/25/36(d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 39,461

458,015

NON-AGENCY FLOATINGRATE–0.0%

Countrywide Alternative LoanTrustSeries 2005-62, Class 2A11.544%, 12/25/35(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 26,031Series 2006-OA14, Class 3A11.394%, 11/25/46(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 75,103Series 2007-OA3, Class M10.541%, 4/25/47(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 1,658

Lehman XS TrustSeries 2007-4N, Class M10.681%, 3/25/47(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265 1,193

103,985

NON-AGENCY FIXEDRATE–0.0%

Merrill Lynch MortgageInvestors, Inc.Series 2005-A8, Class A1C15.25%, 8/25/36 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 61,013

Total CMOs(cost $1,469,027) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 623,013

Shares

WARRANTS–0.1%FINANCIALS–0.1%REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT

TRUSTS (REITS)–0.0%Fonciere Des Regions, expiring

12/31/10(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,100 2,618

REAL ESTATEMANAGEMENT &DEVELOPMENT–0.1%

Merrill Lynch CW12 Aldar PR,expiring 10/22/12(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . 86,100 114,754


Merrill Lynch Inte, expiring1/12/10(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233,600 $ 311,342

426,096

Total Warrants(cost $524,924) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428,714

PrincipalAmount

(000)

EMERGING MARKETS–CORPORATEBONDS–0.0%

INDUSTRIAL–0.0%ENERGY–0.0%Ecopetrol SA

7.625%, 7/23/19(cost $124,566) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 125 138,562

Shares

RIGHTS–0.0%FINANCIALS–0.0%DIVERSIFIED FINANCIAL

SERVICES–0.0%Fortis(a)

(cost $0) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5,366 0

PrincipalAmount

(000)

SHORT-TERMINVESTMENTS–3.3%

TIME DEPOSIT–3.3%State Street Time Deposit

0.01%, 1/04/10(cost $17,526,000) . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 17,526 17,526,000

TOTALINVESTMENTS–101.4%(cost $481,733,118) . . . . . . . . . . . . 539,276,000

Other assets lessliabilities–(1.4)% . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (7,486,665.00)

NET ASSETS–100.0% . . . . . . . . . . $ 531,789,335

23


FUTURES CONTRACTS (see Note D)

TypeNumber ofContracts

ExpirationMonth

OriginalValue

Value atDecember 31,

2009

UnrealizedAppreciation/(Depreciation)

Purchased ContractsEURO STOXX 50 3 March 2010 $ 120,940 $ 127,815 $ 6,875TOPIX INDEX 3 March 2010 287,960 291,351 3,391

$ 10,266

FORWARD CURRENCY EXCHANGE CONTRACTS (see Note D)

ContractAmount

(000)

U.S. $Value on

Origination Date

U.S. $Value at

December 31, 2009


Buy Contracts:Australian Dollar settling 2/17/10 4,661 $ 4,198,163 $ 4,168,470 $ (29,693)Australian Dollar settling 2/17/10 4,426 3,986,498 3,958,302 (28,196)Australian Dollar settling 2/17/10 322 283,341 287,974 4,633Australian Dollar settling 3/15/10 1,728 1,554,370 1,541,138 (13,232)British Pound settling 2/17/10 1,465 2,433,863 2,365,664 (68,199)British Pound settling 2/17/10 129 214,864 208,308 (6,556)British Pound settling 2/17/10 189 309,951 305,195 (4,756)British Pound settling 2/17/10 937 1,508,289 1,513,057 4,768British Pound settling 3/15/10 793 1,291,734 1,280,305 (11,429)Euro settling 1/25/10 113 169,847 162,629 (7,218)Euro settling 2/17/10 1,719 2,555,775 2,464,137 (91,638)Japanese Yen settling 2/17/10 34,685 382,334 372,497 (9,837)Japanese Yen settling 3/15/10 23,673 268,423 254,269 (14,154)New Zealand Dollar settling 2/17/10 2,369 1,698,692 1,714,991 16,299New Zealand Dollar settling 2/17/10 2,657 1,905,202 1,923,483 18,281New Zealand Dollar settling 2/17/10 681 482,529 492,996 10,467New Zealand Dollar settling 3/15/10 2,252 1,586,804 1,627,144 40,340Norwegian Krone settling 2/17/10 10,594 1,859,249 1,826,272 (32,977)Norwegian Krone settling 2/17/10 10,883 1,909,968 1,876,092 (33,876)Norwegian Krone settling 3/15/10 8,254 1,424,422 1,421,106 (3,316)Swedish Krona settling 2/17/10 3,042 437,809 425,278 (12,531)Swedish Krona settling 2/17/10 10,994 1,575,771 1,536,984 (38,787)Swedish Krona settling 2/17/10 12,085 1,732,145 1,689,509 (42,636)Swedish Krona settling 3/15/10 7,059 992,534 987,000 (5,534)

Sale Contracts:Australian Dollar settling 2/17/10 218 202,043 194,964 7,079British Pound settling 2/17/10 661 1,062,914 1,067,375 (4,461)British Pound settling 2/17/10 3,881 6,430,196 6,266,993 163,203British Pound settling 2/17/10 2,531 4,193,462 4,087,029 106,433Canadian Dollar settling 1/13/10 4,394 4,126,114 4,201,799 (75,685)Canadian Dollar settling 2/17/10 934 878,397 893,063 (14,666)Canadian Dollar settling 2/17/10 770 724,160 736,251 (12,091)Canadian Dollar settling 2/17/10 523 500,905 500,077 828Euro settling 1/25/10 390 580,128 559,653 20,475Euro settling 2/17/10 403 596,698 577,689 19,009Euro settling 2/17/10 431 640,802 617,826 22,976

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ContractAmount

(000)

U.S. $Value on

Origination Date

U.S. $Value at

December 31, 2009


Sale Contracts: (continued)Euro settling 2/17/10 76 $ 113,055 $ 108,944 $ 4,111Euro settling 2/17/10 73 109,887 104,643 5,244Euro settling 2/17/10 1,394 2,104,285 1,998,259 106,026Euro settling 2/17/10 330 497,601 473,046 24,555Euro settling 2/17/10 79 119,110 113,244 5,866Euro settling 2/17/10 707 1,013,315 1,013,464 (149)Euro settling 3/15/10 1,369 2,014,333 1,962,318 52,015Japanese Yen settling 2/17/10 67,318 745,427 722,957 22,470Japanese Yen settling 2/17/10 44,495 489,332 477,851 11,481Japanese Yen settling 2/17/10 31,499 343,179 338,282 4,897Japanese Yen settling 2/17/10 201,171 2,224,310 2,160,463 63,847Japanese Yen settling 2/17/10 22,723 255,409 244,032 11,377Japanese Yen settling 2/17/10 13,927 159,093 149,568 9,525Japanese Yen settling 2/17/10 20,015 226,940 214,949 11,991Japanese Yen settling 2/17/10 21,326 238,578 229,029 9,549Japanese Yen settling 2/17/10 12,725 139,045 136,659 2,386New Zealand Dollar settling 2/17/10 215 151,964 155,645 (3,681)Swiss Franc settling 2/17/10 126 125,217 121,836 3,381Swiss Franc settling 2/17/10 176 173,303 170,184 3,119Swiss Franc settling 2/17/10 2,010 1,979,203 1,943,582 35,621Swiss Franc settling 2/17/10 177 174,532 171,151 3,381

(a) Non-income producing security.

(b) Security is exempt from registration under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933. These securities are considered liquid and maybe resold in transactions exempt from registration, normally to qualified institutional buyers. At December 31, 2009, the aggregatemarket value of these securities amounted to $12,366,842 or 2.3% of net assets.

(c) Coupon rate adjusts periodically based upon a predetermined schedule. Stated interest rate in effect at December 31, 2009.

(d) Variable rate coupon, rate shown as of December 31, 2009.

(e) Floating Rate Security. Stated interest rate was in effect at December 31, 2009.

(f) Security is in default and is non-income producing.

The fund currently owns investments collateralized by subprime mortgage loans. Subprime loans are offered to homeowners who donot have a history of debt or who have had problems meeting their debt obligations. Because repayment is less certain, subprimeborrowers pay a higher rate of interest than prime borrowers. As of December 31, 2009, the fund’s total exposure to subprimeinvestments was 0.29% of net assets. These investments are valued in accordance with the fund’s Valuation Policies (see Note A foradditional details).

Currency Abbreviations:

CAD—Canadian DollarEUR—Euro DollarGBP—Great British Pound

Glossary:

ADR—American Depositary ReceiptARMS—Adjustable Rate MortgagesCMBS—Commercial Mortgage-Backed SecuritiesCMOs—Collateralized Mortgage ObligationsFDIC—Federal Deposit Insurance CorporationFDR—Fiduciary Depositary ReceiptGDR—Global Depositary ReceiptLP—Limited PartnershipOJSC—Open Joint Stock CompanyREIT—Real Estate Investment TrustTBA—To Be AnnouncedTIPS—Treasury Inflation Protected Security

See notes to financial statements.

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BALANCED WEALTH STRATEGY PORTFOLIOSTATEMENT OF ASSETS & LIABILITIESDecember 31, 2009 AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

ASSETSInvestments in securities, at value (cost $481,733,118) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $539,276,000Cash . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36,230(a)Foreign currencies, at value (cost $830,471) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 828,898Interest and dividends receivable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,100,452Receivable for investment securities sold and foreign currency transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,040,551Unrealized appreciation of forward currency exchange contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 825,633Receivable for capital stock sold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155,474

Total assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 544,263,238

LIABILITIESPayable for investment securities purchased and foreign currency transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11,379,969Unrealized depreciation of forward currency exchange contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 565,298Advisory fee payable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245,856Distribution fee payable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96,261Payable for capital stock redeemed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69,252Administrative fee payable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21,845Transfer Agent fee payable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125Payable for variation margin on futures contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26Accrued expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95,271

Total liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12,473,903

NET ASSETS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $531,789,335

COMPOSITION OF NET ASSETSCapital stock, at par . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 50,193Additional paid-in capital . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 546,291,400Undistributed net investment income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,574,020Accumulated net realized loss on investment and foreign currency transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (81,939,978)Net unrealized appreciation on investments and foreign currency denominated assets and liabilities . . . . . . . 57,813,700

$531,789,335

Net Asset Value Per Share—1 billion shares of capital stock authorized, $.001 par value

Class Net AssetsShares

OutstandingNet Asset

Value

A $ 73,120,148 6,857,108 $ 10.66

B $ 458,669,187 43,335,564 $ 10.58

(a) An amount of $21,681 has been segregated to collateralize margin requirements for open futures contracts outstanding atDecember 31, 2009.


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BALANCED WEALTH STRATEGY PORTFOLIOSTATEMENT OF OPERATIONSYear Ended December 31, 2009 AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

INVESTMENT INCOMEDividends (net of foreign taxes withheld of $343,043) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 7,115,786Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,015,010

14,130,796

EXPENSESAdvisory fee (see Note B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,339,309Distribution fee—Class B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 896,107Transfer agency—Class A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,325Transfer agency—Class B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7,785Custodian . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260,324Printing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124,829Administrative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82,772Audit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58,883Legal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,877Directors’ fees . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,390Miscellaneous . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42,684

Total expenses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,861,285

Net investment income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10,269,511

REALIZED AND UNREALIZED GAIN (LOSS) ON INVESTMENT AND FOREIGNCURRENCY TRANSACTIONSNet realized gain (loss) on:

Investment transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (42,148,584)Futures contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109,328Foreign currency transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 763,189

Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation of:Investments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132,221,260Futures contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,082Foreign currency denominated assets and liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (1,168,861)

Net gain on investment and foreign currency transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89,782,414

NET INCREASE IN NET ASSETS FROM OPERATIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $100,051,925


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BALANCED WEALTH STRATEGY PORTFOLIOSTATEMENT OF CHANGES IN NET ASSETS AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

Year EndedDecember 31,

2009


2008

INCREASE (DECREASE) IN NET ASSETS FROM OPERATIONSNet investment income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 10,269,511 $ 6,628,409Net realized loss on investment and foreign currency transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (41,276,067) (35,604,381)Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation of investments and foreign currency

denominated assets and liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131,058,481 (79,848,031)Contributions from Adviser (see Note B) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– 6

Net increase (decrease) in net assets from operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100,051,925 (108,823,997)DIVIDENDS AND DISTRIBUTIONS TO SHAREHOLDERS FROM

Net investment incomeClass A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (716,042) (296)Class B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (3,162,663) (7,557,243)

Net realized gain on investment and foreign currency transactionsClass A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– (217)Class B . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– (5,342,366)

CAPITAL STOCK TRANSACTIONSNet increase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82,128,184 263,761,629

Total increase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178,301,404 142,037,510NET ASSETS

Beginning of period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 353,487,931 211,450,421

End of period (including undistributed net investment income of $9,574,020 and$1,853,865, respectively) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $531,789,335 $ 353,487,931


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BALANCED WEALTH STRATEGY PORTFOLIONOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTSDecember 31, 2009 AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

NOTE A: Significant Accounting PoliciesThe AllianceBernstein Balanced Wealth Strategy Portfolio (the “Portfolio”) is a series of AllianceBernstein Variable Prod-ucts Series Fund, Inc. (the “Fund”). The Portfolio’s investment objective is to maximize total return consistent with theAdviser’s determination of reasonable risk. The Portfolio is diversified as defined under the Investment Company Act of1940. The Fund was incorporated in the State of Maryland on November 17, 1987, as an open-end series investment com-pany. The Fund offers thirteen separately managed pools of assets which have differing investment objectives and policies.The Portfolio offers Class A and Class B shares. Both classes of shares have identical voting, dividend, liquidating and otherrights, except that Class B shares bear a distribution expense and have exclusive voting rights with respect to the Class Bdistribution plan.

The Portfolio offers and sells its shares only to separate accounts of certain life insurance companies for the purpose of fund-ing variable annuity contracts and variable life insurance policies. Sales are made without a sales charge at the Portfolio’s netasset value per share.

The financial statements have been prepared in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“U.S.GAAP”) which require management to make certain estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assetsand liabilities in the financial statements and amounts of income and expenses during the reporting period. Actual resultscould differ from those estimates. The following is a summary of significant accounting policies followed by the Portfolio.

1. Security ValuationPortfolio securities are valued at their current market value determined on the basis of market quotations or, if market quota-tions are not readily available or are deemed unreliable, at “fair value” as determined in accordance with procedures estab-lished by and under the general supervision of the Fund’s Board of Directors.

In general, the market value of securities which are readily available and deemed reliable are determined as follows. Secu-rities listed on a national securities exchange (other than securities listed on the NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc.(“NASDAQ”)) or on a foreign securities exchange are valued at the last sale price at the close of the exchange or foreignsecurities exchange. If there has been no sale on such day, the securities are valued at the mean of the closing bid and askedprices on such day. Securities listed on more than one exchange are valued by reference to the principal exchange on whichthe securities are traded; securities listed only on NASDAQ are valued in accordance with the NASDAQ Official ClosingPrice; listed put or call options are valued at the last sale price. If there has been no sale on that day, such securities will bevalued at the closing bid prices on that day; open futures contracts and options thereon are valued using the closing settle-ment price or, in the absence of such a price, the most recent quoted bid price. If there are no quotations available for the dayof valuation, the last available closing settlement price is used; securities traded in the over-the-counter market (“OTC”) arevalued at the mean of the current bid and asked prices as reported by the National Quotation Bureau or other comparablesources; U.S. government securities and other debt instruments having 60 days or less remaining until maturity are valued atamortized cost if their original maturity was 60 days or less; or by amortizing their fair value as of the 61st day prior tomaturity if their original term to maturity exceeded 60 days; fixed-income securities, including mortgage backed and assetbacked securities, may be valued on the basis of prices provided by a pricing service or at a price obtained from one or moreof the major broker/dealers. In cases where broker/dealer quotes are obtained, AllianceBernstein L.P. (the “Adviser”) mayestablish procedures whereby changes in market yields or spreads are used to adjust, on a daily basis, a recently obtainedquoted price on a security; and OTC and other derivatives are valued on the basis of a quoted bid price or spread from amajor broker/dealer in such security.

Securities for which market quotations are not readily available (including restricted securities) or are deemed unreliable arevalued at fair value. Factors considered in making this determination may include, but are not limited to, informationobtained by contacting the issuer, analysts, analysis of the issuer’s financial statements or other available documents. Inaddition, the Portfolio may use fair value pricing for securities primarily traded in non-U.S. markets because most foreignmarkets close well before the Portfolio values its securities at 4:00 p.m., Eastern Time. The earlier close of these foreignmarkets gives rise to the possibility that significant events, including broad market moves, may have occurred in the interimand may materially affect the value of those securities. To account for this, the Portfolio may frequently value many of itsforeign equity securities using fair value prices based on third party vendor modeling tools to the extent available.

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BALANCED WEALTH STRATEGY PORTFOLIONOTES TO FINANCIAL STATEMENTS(continued) AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

2. Fair Value MeasurementsIn accordance with U.S. GAAP regarding fair value measurements, fair value is defined as the price that the Portfolio wouldreceive to sell an asset or pay to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurementdate. The disclosure requirements also establish a framework for measuring fair value, and a three-level hierarchy for fairvalue measurements based upon the transparency of inputs to the valuation of an asset or liability. Inputs may be observableor unobservable and refer broadly to the assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability.Observable inputs reflect the assumptions market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability based on market dataobtained from sources independent of the Portfolio. Unobservable inputs reflect the Portfolio’s own assumptions about theassumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability developed based on the best informationavailable in the circumstances. Each investment is assigned a level based upon the observability of the inputs which are sig-nificant to the overall valuation. The three-tier hierarchy of inputs is summarized below.

• Level 1—quoted prices in active markets for identical investments• Level 2—other significant observable inputs (including quoted prices for similar investments, interest rates,

prepayment speeds, credit risk, etc.)• Level 3—significant unobservable inputs (including the Portfolio’s own assumptions in determining the fair value of

investments)

The following table summarizes the valuation of the Portfolio’s investments by the above fair value hierarchy levels as ofDecember 31, 2009:

Investments in Securities Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total

Assets:Common Stocks

Financials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 63,141,995 $ 46,130,275 $ –0– $109,272,270Information Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,068,973 6,875,098 –0– 49,944,071Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,866,283 7,510,987 –0– 33,377,270Consumer Discretionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25,274,872 7,880,853 –0– 33,155,725Health Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24,584,772 7,877,355 –0– 32,462,127Industrials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17,149,398 10,188,465 –0– 27,337,863Consumer Staples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13,523,304 6,788,792 –0– 20,312,096Materials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,792,296 7,634,482 –0– 17,426,778Telecommunication Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6,756,304 5,794,463 –0– 12,550,767Utilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,081,785 2,186,682 –0– 5,268,467

Corporates—Investment Grades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– 57,022,692 368,661 57,391,353Governments—Treasuries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– 51,920,767 –0– 51,920,767Mortgage Pass-Thru’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– 27,765,739 –0– 27,765,739Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities . . . . . . . . –0– 14,320,682 871,864 15,192,546Agencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– 9,961,510 –0– 9,961,510Corporates—Non-Investment Grades . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– 6,126,759 65,766 6,192,525Asset-Backed Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– 1,847,588 982,613 2,830,201Governments—Sovereign Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– 2,559,607 –0– 2,559,607Governments—Sovereign Agencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– 2,039,956 –0– 2,039,956Inflation-Linked Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– 1,848,473 –0– 1,848,473Quasi-Sovereigns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– 885,938 –0– 885,938Preferred Stocks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– 863,662 –0– 863,662CMOs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– –0– 623,013 623,013Warrants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,618 –0– 426,096 428,714Emerging Markets—Corporate Bonds . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– 138,562 –0– 138,562Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– –0– –0– –0–Short-Term Investments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– 17,526,000 –0– 17,526,000

Total Investments in Securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232,242,600 303,695,387 3,338,013 539,276,000

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Level 1 Level 2 Level 3 Total

Other Financial Instruments*:Assets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 10,266 $ 825,633 $ –0– $ 835,899Liabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– (565,298) –0– (565,298)

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $232,252,866 $303,955,722 $3,338,013 $539,546,601

* Other financial instruments are derivative instruments, such as futures, forwards and swap contracts, which are valued at the unreal-ized appreciation/depreciation on the instrument.

Following is a reconciliation of investments in which significant unobservable inputs (Level 3) were used in determining fairvalue:

CommonStocks -Energy

Corporates -Investment

Grades

CommercialMortgage-Backed

Securities

Corporates -Non-Investment

Grades

Balance as of 12/31/08 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 156,101 $ 322,113 $ –0– $ 313,828Accrued discounts /premiums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– (143) 2,415 89Realized gain (loss) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (15,004) –0– (14,368) 58Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90,319 46,691 156,767 21,406Net purchases (sales) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (231,416) –0– (71,095) (3,503)Net transfers in and/or out of Level 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– –0– 798,145 (266,112)

Balance as of 12/31/09 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ –0– $ 368,661 $ 871,864 $ 65,766

Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation fromInvestments held as of 12/31/09* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ –0– $ 46,691 $ 156,767 $ 21,406

Asset-BackedSecurities

Governments -Sovereign

BondsQuasi-

Sovereigns CMOs

Balance as of 12/31/08 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $1,423,710 $ 935,212 $ 168,150 $ 835,035Accrued discounts /premiums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1,316 –0– 1,717 (39)Realized gain (loss) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (46,917) –0– 26,869 (31,909)Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131,282 –0– 107,483 227,739Net purchases (sales) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (526,778) –0– (304,219) (407,813)Net transfers in and/or out of Level 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– (935,212) –0– –0–

Balance as of 12/31/09 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 982,613 $ –0– $ –0– $ 623,013

Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation fromInvestments held as of 12/31/09* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 71,687 $ –0– $ –0– $ 179,366

Warrants Total

Balance as of 12/31/08 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ –0– $ 4,154,149Accrued discounts /premiums . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– 5,355Realized gain (loss) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– (81,271)Change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (98,827) 682,860Net purchases (sales) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 524,923 (1,019,901)Net transfers in and/or out of Level 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– (403,179)

Balance as of 12/31/09 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 426,096 $ 3,338,013

Net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation fromInvestments held as of 12/31/09* . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ (98,827) $ 377,090

* The unrealized appreciation/depreciation is included in net change in unrealized appreciation/depreciation of investments in theaccompanying statement of operations.

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3. Currency TranslationAssets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies and commitments under forward currency exchange contracts aretranslated into U.S. dollars at the mean of the quoted bid and asked prices of such currencies against the U.S. dollar. Pur-chases and sales of portfolio securities are translated into U.S. dollars at the rates of exchange prevailing when such secu-rities were acquired or sold. Income and expenses are translated into U.S. dollars at rates of exchange prevailing whenaccrued.

Net realized gain or loss on foreign currency transactions represents foreign exchange gains and losses from sales and matur-ities of foreign fixed income investments, foreign currency exchange contracts, holding of foreign currencies, currency gainsor losses realized between the trade and settlement dates on foreign investment transactions, and the difference between theamounts of dividends, interest and foreign withholding taxes recorded on the Portfolio’s books and the U.S. dollar equivalentamounts actually received or paid. Net unrealized currency gains and losses from valuing foreign currency denominatedassets and liabilities at period end exchange rates are reflected as a component of net unrealized appreciation or depreciationof investments and foreign currency denominated assets and liabilities.

4. TaxesIt is the Portfolio’s policy to meet the requirements of the Internal Revenue Code applicable to regulated investment compa-nies and to distribute all of its investment company taxable income and net realized gains, if any, to shareholders. Therefore,no provisions for federal income or excise taxes are required. The Portfolio may be subject to taxes imposed by countries inwhich it invests. Such taxes are generally based on income and/or capital gains earned or repatriated. Taxes are accrued andapplied to net investment income, net realized gains and net unrealized appreciation/depreciation as such income and/orgains are earned.

In accordance with U.S. GAAP requirements regarding accounting for uncertainties in income taxes, management has ana-lyzed the Portfolio’s tax positions taken on federal and state income tax returns for all open tax years (the current and theprior three tax years) and has concluded that no provision for income tax is required in the Portfolio’s financial statements.

5. Investment Income and Investment TransactionsDividend income is recorded on the ex-dividend date or as soon as the Portfolio is informed of the dividend. Interest incomeis accrued daily. Investment transactions are accounted for on the date the securities are purchased or sold. Investment gainsor losses are determined on the identified cost basis. The Portfolio amortizes premiums and accretes discounts as adjust-ments to interest income.

6. Class AllocationsAll income earned and expenses incurred by the Portfolio are borne on a pro-rata basis by each outstanding class of shares,based on the proportionate interest in the Portfolio represented by the net assets of such class, except for class specificexpenses which are allocated to the respective class. Expenses of the Fund are charged to each Portfolio in proportion to netassets. Realized and unrealized gains and losses are allocated among the various share classes based on respective net assets.

7. Dividends and DistributionsDividends and distributions to shareholders, if any, are recorded on the ex-dividend date. Income dividends and capital gainsdistributions are determined in accordance with federal tax regulations and may differ from those determined in accordancewith U.S. GAAP. To the extent these differences are permanent, such amounts are reclassified within the capital accountsbased on their federal tax basis treatment; temporary differences do not require such reclassification.

8. Repurchase AgreementsIt is the Portfolio’s policy that its custodian or designated subcustodian take control of securities as collateral underrepurchase agreements and to determine on a daily basis that the value of such securities are sufficient to cover the value ofthe repurchase agreements. If the seller defaults and the value of the collateral declines or if bankruptcy proceedings arecommenced with respect to the seller of the security, realization of collateral by the Portfolio may be delayed or limited.

NOTE B: Advisory Fee and Other Transactions with AffiliatesUnder the terms of the investment advisory agreement, the Portfolio pays the Adviser an advisory fee at an annual rate of.55% of the first $2.5 billion, .45% of the next $2.5 billion and .40% in excess of $5 billion, of the Portfolio’s average dailynet assets. The fee is accrued daily and paid monthly. The Adviser has agreed to waive its fees and bear certain expenses tothe extent necessary to limit total operating expenses on an annual basis to .75% and 1.00% of the daily average net assets

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for Class A and Class B shares, respectively. Prior to February 12, 2007, the Portfolio’s total operating expenses on anannual basis were limited to 1.20% and 1.45% of the daily average net assets for Class A and Class B shares, respectively.This waiver extends through May 1, 2010 and may be extended by the Adviser for additional one-year terms. For the yearended December 31, 2009, there were no expenses waived by the Adviser.

During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Adviser made a payment of $6 to the Portfolio in connection with a tradingerror.

Pursuant to the investment advisory agreement, the Portfolio may reimburse the Adviser for certain legal and accountingservices provided to the Portfolio by the Adviser. For the year ended December 31, 2009, such fee amounted to $82,772.

Brokerage commissions paid on investment transactions for the year ended December 31, 2009 amounted to $370,234, ofwhich $0 and $0, respectively, was paid to Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. LLC and Sanford C. Bernstein Limited, affiliates ofthe Adviser.

The Portfolio compensates AllianceBernstein Investor Services, Inc. (“ABIS”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Adviser,under a Transfer Agency Agreement for providing personnel and facilities to perform transfer agency services for thePortfolio. Such compensation retained by ABIS amounted to $1,250 for the year ended December 31, 2009.

NOTE C: Distribution PlanThe Portfolio has adopted a Distribution Plan (the “Plan”) for Class B shares pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the InvestmentCompany Act of 1940. Under the Plan, the Portfolio pays distribution and servicing fees to AllianceBernstein Investments,Inc. (the “Distributor”), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Adviser, at an annual rate of up to .50% of the Portfolio’s averagedaily net assets attributable to Class B shares. The fees are accrued daily and paid monthly. The Board of Directors currentlylimits payments under the Plan to .25% of the Portfolio’s average daily net assets attributable to Class B shares. The Planprovides that the Distributor will use such payments in their entirety for distribution assistance and promotional activities.

The Portfolio is not obligated under the Plan to pay any distribution and servicing fees in excess of the amounts set forthabove. The purpose of the payments to the Distributor under the Plan is to compensate the Distributor for its distributionservices with respect to the sale of the Portfolio’s Class B shares. Since the Distributor’s compensation is not directly tied toits expenses, the amount of compensation received by it under the Plan during any year may be more or less than its actualexpenses. For this reason, the Plan is characterized by the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission as being of the“compensation” variety.

In the event that the Plan is terminated or not continued, no distribution and servicing fees (other than current amountsaccrued but not yet paid) would be owed by the Portfolio to the Distributor.

The Plan also provides that the Adviser may use its own resources to finance the distribution of the Portfolio’s shares.

NOTE D: Investment TransactionsPurchases and sales of investment securities (excluding short-term investments) for the year ended December 31, 2009 wereas follows:

Purchases Sales

Investment securities (excluding U.S. government securities) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $307,933,308 $244,255,660U.S. government securities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140,534,715 102,492,986

The cost of investments for federal income tax purposes, gross unrealized appreciation and unrealized depreciation(excluding futures and foreign currency transactions) are as follows:

Cost . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $496,222,587

Gross unrealized appreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54,767,322Gross unrealized depreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (11,713,909)

Net unrealized appreciation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 43,053,413

1. Derivative Financial InstrumentsThe Portfolio may use derivatives to earn income and enhance returns, to hedge or adjust the risk profile of its portfolio, toreplace more traditional direct investments, or to obtain exposure to otherwise inaccessible markets. The Portfolio may alsouse derivatives for non-hedging purposes as a means of making direct investment in foreign currencies, as described belowunder “Currency Transactions”.

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The principal types of derivatives utilized by the Portfolio, as well as the methods in which they may be used are:

• Futures ContractsThe Portfolio may buy or sell futures contracts for the purpose of hedging its portfolio against adverse effects ofanticipated movements in the market or for investment purposes. The Portfolio bears the market risk that arises fromchanges in the value of these instruments and the imperfect correlation between movements in the price of thefutures contracts and movements in the price of the securities hedged or used for cover. The Portfolio may alsopurchase or sell futures contracts for foreign currencies or options thereon for non-hedging purposes as a means ofmaking direct investment in foreign currencies, as described below under “Currency Transactions”.

At the time the Portfolio enters into a futures contract, the Portfolio deposits and maintains as collateral an initialmargin with the broker, as required by the exchange on which the transaction is effected. Pursuant to the contract,the Portfolio agrees to receive from or pay to the broker an amount of cash equal to the daily fluctuation in the valueof the contract. Such receipts or payments are known as variation margin and are recorded by the Portfolio asunrealized gains or losses. Risks may arise from the potential inability of a counterparty to meet the terms of thecontract. The credit/counterparty risk for exchange-traded futures contracts is generally less than privately negotiatedfutures contracts, since the clearinghouse, which is the issuer or counterparty to each exchange-traded future,provides a guarantee of performance. This guarantee is supported by a daily payment system (i.e., marginrequirements). When the contract is closed, the Portfolio records a realized gain or loss equal to the differencebetween the value of the contract at the time it was opened and the time it was closed.

• Forward Currency Exchange ContractsThe Portfolio may enter into forward currency exchange contracts in order to hedge its exposure to changes inforeign currency exchange rates on its foreign portfolio holdings, to hedge certain firm purchase and salecommitments denominated in foreign currencies and for non-hedging purposes as a means of making directinvestments in foreign currencies, as described below under “Currency Transactions”.

A forward currency exchange contract is a commitment to purchase or sell a foreign currency at a future date at anegotiated forward rate. The gain or loss arising from the difference between the original contract and the closing ofsuch contract would be included in net realized gain or loss on foreign currency transactions. Fluctuations in thevalue of open forward currency exchange contracts are recorded for financial reporting purposes as unrealizedappreciation and/or depreciation by the Portfolio. Risks may arise from the potential inability of a counterparty tomeet the terms of a contract and from unanticipated movements in the value of a foreign currency relative to theU.S. dollar. The face or contract amount, in U.S. dollars reflects the total exposure the Portfolio has in that particularcurrency contract.

• Option TransactionsFor hedging and investment purposes, the Portfolio may purchase and write (sell) put and call options on U.S. andforeign securities and foreign currencies that are traded on U.S. and foreign securities exchanges andover-the-counter markets. The Portfolio may also use options transactions for non-hedging purposes as a means ofmaking direct investments in foreign currencies, as described below under “Currency Transactions”.

The risk associated with purchasing an option is that the Portfolio pays a premium whether or not the option isexercised. Additionally, the Portfolio bears the risk of loss of the premium and change in market value should thecounterparty not perform under the contract. Put and call options purchased are accounted for in the same manner asportfolio securities. The cost of securities acquired through the exercise of call options is increased by premiumspaid. The proceeds from securities sold through the exercise of put options are decreased by the premiums paid.

When the Portfolio writes an option, the premium received by the Portfolio is recorded as a liability and issubsequently adjusted to the current market value of the option written. Premiums received from written optionswhich expire unexercised are recorded by the Portfolio on the expiration date as realized gains from options written.The difference between the premium received and the amount paid on effecting a closing purchase transaction,including brokerage commissions, is also treated as a realized gain, or if the premium received is less than theamount paid for the closing purchase transaction, as a realized loss. If a call option is exercised, the premiumreceived is added to the proceeds from the sale of the underlying security or currency in determining whether thePortfolio has realized a gain or loss. If a put option is exercised, the premium received reduces the cost basis of the

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security or currency purchased by the Portfolio. In writing an option, the Portfolio bears the market risk of anunfavorable change in the price of the security or currency underlying the written option. Exercise of an optionwritten by the Portfolio could result in the Portfolio selling or buying a security or currency at a price different fromthe current market value. For the year ended December 31, 2009, the Portfolio had no transactions in writtenoptions.

At December 31, 2009, the Portfolio had entered into the following derivatives:Asset Derivatives Liability Derivatives

Derivatives Not Accounted for as HedgingInstruments

Statement ofAssets and Liabilities

Location Fair Value

Statement ofAssets and Liabilities

Location Fair Value

Foreign exchange contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Unrealized appreciation offorward currencyexchange contracts

$825,633 Unrealized depreciation offorward currencyexchange contracts

$565,298

Equity contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Receivable for variationmargin on futures contracts

10,266*

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $835,899 $565,298

* Only variation margin receivable/payable at period end is reported within the statement of assets and liabilities. Cumulative apprecia-tion/(depreciation) of futures contracts is reported in the portfolio of investments.

The effect of derivative instruments on the statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2009:

Derivatives Not Accounted for as HedgingInstruments Location of Gain or (Loss) on Derivatives

Realized Gain or(Loss) on

Derivatives

Change in UnrealizedAppreciation or(Depreciation)

Foreign exchange contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Net realized gain (loss) on foreigncurrency transactions; Net change inunrealized appreciation/depreciation offoreign currency denominated assets andliabilities

$559,049 $(1,174,314)

Equity contracts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Net realized gain (loss) on futurescontracts; Net change in unrealizedappreciation/depreciation of futurescontracts

109,328 6,082

Total . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $668,377 $(1,168,232)

For the year ended December 31, 2009, the average monthly principal amount of foreign currency exchange contracts was$67,672,391 and average monthly original value of futures contracts was $337,263.

2. Currency TransactionsThe Portfolio may invest in non-U.S. Dollar securities on a currency hedged or unhedged basis. The Portfolio may seekinvestment opportunities by taking long or short positions in currencies through the use of currency-related derivatives,including forward currency exchange contracts, futures and options on futures, swaps, and options. The Portfolio may enterinto transactions for investment opportunities when it anticipates that a foreign currency will appreciate or depreciate invalue but securities denominated in that currency are not held by the Portfolio and do not present attractive investmentopportunities. Such transactions may also be used when the Adviser believes that it may be more efficient than a directinvestment in a foreign currency-denominated security. The Portfolio may also conduct currency exchange contracts on aspot basis (i.e., for cash at the spot rate prevailing in the currency exchange market for buying or selling currencies).

3. Dollar RollsThe Portfolio may enter into dollar rolls. Dollar rolls involve sales by the Portfolio of securities for delivery in the currentmonth and the Portfolio’s simultaneously contracting to repurchase substantially similar (same type and coupon) securitieson a specified future date. During the roll period, the Portfolio forgoes principal and interest paid on the securities. The Port-folio is compensated by the difference between the current sales price and the lower forward price for the future purchase(often referred to as the “drop”) as well as by the interest earned on the cash proceeds of the initial sale. Dollar rolls involvethe risk that the market value of the securities the Portfolio is obligated to repurchase under the agreement may

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decline below the repurchase price. Dollar rolls are speculative techniques and may be considered to be borrowings by thePortfolio. For the year ended December 31, 2009, the Portfolio earned drop income of $39,124 which is included in interestincome in the accompanying statement of operations.

NOTE E: Capital StockEach class consists of 500,000,000 authorized shares. Transactions in capital shares for each class were as follows:

SHARES AMOUNTYear Ended

December 31,2009


2008


2009


2008

Class AShares sold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 487,229 26,690 $ 4,520,608 $ 226,132Shares issued in reinvestment of dividends and

distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79,384 –0– 716,042 –0–Shares issued in connection with the acquisition of Balanced

Shares Portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– 8,694,602 –0– 90,961,719Shares redeemed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (1,532,263) (899,299) (13,836,172) (7,772,470)

Net increase (decrease) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (965,650) 7,821,993 $ (8,599,522) $ 83,415,381

Class BShares sold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14,055,879 15,581,451 $127,281,365 $164,069,127Shares issued in reinvestment of dividends and

distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 352,582 1,124,077 3,162,663 12,899,609Shares issued in connection with the acquisition of Balanced

Shares Portfolio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– 2,754,448 –0– 28,651,812Shares redeemed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (4,410,508) (2,430,837) (39,716,322) (25,274,300)

Net increase . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9,997,953 17,029,139 $ 90,727,706 $180,346,248

NOTE F: Risks Involved in Investing in the PortfolioInterest Rate Risk and Credit Risk—Interest rate risk is the risk that changes in interest rates will affect the value of the Port-folio’s investments in fixed-income debt securities such as bonds or notes. Increases in interest rates may cause the value ofthe Portfolio’s investments to decline. Credit risk is the risk that the issuer or guarantor of a debt security, or the counterpartyto a derivative contract, will be unable or unwilling to make timely principal and/or interest payments, or to otherwise honorits obligations. The degree of risk for a particular security may be reflected in its credit risk rating. Credit risk is greater formedium quality and lower-rated securities. Lower-rated debt securities and similar unrated securities (commonly known as“junk bonds”) have speculative elements or are predominantly speculative risks.

Foreign Securities Risk—Investing in securities of foreign companies or foreign governments involves special risks whichinclude changes in foreign currency exchange rates and the possibility of future political and economic developments whichcould adversely affect the value of such securities. Moreover, securities of many foreign companies or foreign governmentsand their markets may be less liquid and their prices more volatile than those of comparable U.S. companies or of the U.S.government.

Currency Risk—This is the risk that changes in foreign currency exchange rates may negatively affect the value of the Portfo-lio’s investments or reduce the returns of the Portfolio. For example, the value of the Portfolio’s investments in foreigncurrency-denominated securities or currencies may decrease if the U.S. Dollar is strong (i.e., gaining value relative to othercurrencies) and other currencies are weak (i.e., losing value relative to the U.S. Dollar). Currency markets are generally notas regulated as securities markets. Independent of the Portfolio’s investments denominated in foreign currencies, the Portfo-lio’s positions in various foreign currencies may cause the Portfolio to experience investment losses due to the changes inexchange rates and interest rates.

Derivatives Risk—The Portfolio may invest in derivatives such as forwards, options, futures and swaps. These investmentsmay be illiquid, difficult to price, and leveraged so that small changes may produce disproportionate losses for the Portfolio,and subject to counterparty risk to a greater degree than more traditional investments.

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Indemnification Risk—In the ordinary course of business, the Portfolio enters into contracts that contain a variety ofindemnifications. The Portfolio’s maximum exposure under these arrangements is unknown. However, the Portfolio has nothad prior claims or losses pursuant to these indemnification provisions and expects the risk of loss thereunder to be remote.As such, the Portfolio has not accrued any liability in connection with these indemnification provisions.

NOTE G: Joint Credit FacilityA number of open-end mutual funds managed by the Adviser, including the Portfolio, participate in a $140 million revolvingcredit facility (the “Facility”) intended to provide short-term financing, if necessary, subject to certain restrictions in con-nection with abnormal redemption activity. Commitment fees related to the Facility are paid by the participating funds andare included in miscellaneous expenses in the statement of operations. The Portfolio did not utilize the Facility during theyear ended December 31, 2009.

NOTE H: Acquisition of AllianceBernstein Balanced Shares Portfolio by AllianceBernstein Balanced WealthPortfolio (the “Portfolio”)On September 28, 2008, the Portfolio acquired all of the assets and assumed all of the liabilities of AllianceBernstein Bal-anced Shares Portfolio (“Balanced Shares”) in a tax free event, pursuant to a Plan of Acquisition and Liquidation. As a resultof the acquisition, stockholders of Balanced Shares received shares of the Portfolio equivalent to the aggregate net assetvalue of the shares they held in Balanced Shares. On September 28, 2008, the acquisition was accomplished by a tax-freeexchange of 11,449,051 shares of the Portfolio for 8,365,648 shares of Balanced Shares. The aggregate net assets of thePortfolio and Balanced Shares immediately before the acquisition were $269,014,856 and $119,613,531 (including$5,935,661 of net unrealized depreciation of investments and foreign currency denominated assets and liabilities),respectively. Immediately after the acquisition, the combined net assets of the Portfolio amounted to $388,628,387.

NOTE I: Distributions to ShareholdersThe tax character of distributions paid during the fiscal years ended December 31, 2009 and December 31, 2008 were asfollows:

2009 2008

Distributions paid from:Ordinary income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 3,878,705 $ 7,609,285Long-term capital gains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– 5,290,837

Total distributions paid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 3,878,705 $12,900,122

As of December 31, 2009, the components of accumulated earnings/(deficit) on a tax basis were as follows:

Undistributed ordinary income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ 13,550,294Accumulated capital and other losses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (71,259,080)(a)Unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43,138,847(b)

Total accumulated earnings/(deficit) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $ (14,569,939)(c)

(a) On December 31, 2009, the Portfolio had a net capital loss carryforward for federal income tax purposes of $71,142,562 of which$2,981,323 expires in the year 2015, $17,895,700 expires in the year 2016, and $50,265,539 expires in the year 2017. To the extentfuture capital gains are offset by capital loss carryforwards, such gains will not be distributed. As a result of the merger withAllianceBernstein Balanced Shares Portfolio into the Portfolio, various limitations and reductions regarding the future utilization ofcertain capital loss carryforwards were applied, based on certain provisions in the Internal Revenue Code. For the year endedDecember 31, 2009, the Portfolio had deferred straddle losses of $116,518.

(b) The differences between book-basis and tax-basis unrealized appreciation/(depreciation) are attributable primarily to the tax deferralof losses on wash sales, the realization for tax purposes of gains/losses on certain derivative instruments, the tax treatment of passiveforeign investment companies, and the tax treatment of partnerships.

(c) The difference between book-basis and tax-basis components of accumulated earnings/(deficit) is attributable to deferred incomefrom an underlying security.

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During the current fiscal year, permanent differences primarily due to the tax treatment of foreign currency, paydownreclassification, and the tax treatment of passive foreign investment companies, resulted in a net increase in undistributed netinvestment income, and a net increase in accumulated net realized loss on investments and foreign currency transactions.This reclassification had no effect on net assets.

NOTE J: Legal ProceedingsOn October 2, 2003, a purported class action complaint entitled Hindo, et al. v. AllianceBernstein Growth & Income Fund,et al. (“Hindo Complaint”) was filed against the Adviser, Alliance Capital Management Holding L.P. (“Alliance Holding”),Alliance Capital Management Corporation, AXA Financial, Inc., the AllianceBernstein Funds, certain officers of theAdviser (“AllianceBernstein defendants”), and certain other unaffiliated defendants, as well as unnamed Doe defendants.The Hindo Complaint was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York by alleged share-holders of two of the AllianceBernstein Funds. The Hindo Complaint alleges that certain of the AllianceBernstein defend-ants failed to disclose that they improperly allowed certain hedge funds and other unidentified parties to engage in “latetrading” and “market timing” of AllianceBernstein Fund securities, violating Sections 11 and 15 of the Securities Act, Sec-tions 10(b) and 20(a) of the Exchange Act and Sections 206 and 215 of the Advisers Act. Plaintiffs seek an unspecifiedamount of compensatory damages and rescission of their contracts with the Adviser, including recovery of all fees paid tothe Adviser pursuant to such contracts.

Following October 2, 2003, 43 additional lawsuits making factual allegations generally similar to those in the Hindo Com-plaint were filed in various federal and state courts against the Adviser and certain other defendants. On September 29, 2004,plaintiffs filed consolidated amended complaints with respect to four claim types: mutual fund shareholder claims; mutualfund derivative claims; derivative claims brought on behalf of Alliance Holding; and claims brought under ERISA byparticipants in the Profit Sharing Plan for Employees of the Adviser. All four complaints include substantially identical fac-tual allegations, which appear to be based in large part on the Order of the SEC dated December 18, 2003 as amended andrestated January 15, 2004 (“SEC Order”) and the New York State Attorney General Assurance of Discontinuance datedSeptember 1, 2004 (“NYAG Order”).

On April 21, 2006, the Adviser and attorneys for the plaintiffs in the mutual fund shareholder claims, mutual fund derivativeclaims, and ERISA claims entered into a confidential memorandum of understanding containing their agreement to settlethese claims. The agreement will be documented by a stipulation of settlement and will be submitted for court approval at alater date. The settlement amount ($30 million), which the Adviser previously accrued and disclosed, has been disbursed.The derivative claims brought on behalf of Alliance Holding, in which plaintiffs seek an unspecified amount of damages,remain pending.

It is possible that these matters and/or other developments resulting from these matters could result in increased redemptionsof the AllianceBernstein Mutual Funds’ shares or other adverse consequences to the AllianceBernstein Mutual Funds. Thismay require the AllianceBernstein Mutual Funds to sell investments held by those funds to provide for sufficient liquidityand could also have an adverse effect on the investment performance of the AllianceBernstein Mutual Funds. However, theAdviser believes that these matters are not likely to have a material adverse effect on its ability to perform advisory servicesrelating to the AllianceBernstein Mutual Funds.

NOTE K: Subsequent EventsManagement has evaluated subsequent events for possible recognition or disclosure in the financial statements throughFebruary 12, 2010, the date the financial statements are issued. Management has determined that there are no material eventsthat would require disclosure in the Portfolio’s financial statements through this date.

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BALANCED WEALTH STRATEGY PORTFOLIOFINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

Selected Data For A Share Of Capital Stock Outstanding Throughout Each Period

CLASS AYear Ended December 31,

2009 2008 2007 2006 2005

Net asset value, beginning of period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8.63 $13.05 $12.87 $11.39 $10.69

Income From Investment Operations

Net investment income (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24 .22(b) .31(b) .25(b) .18(b)Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on

investment and foreign currency transactions . . . . . 1.89 (3.97) .41 1.32 .60Contributions from Adviser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– .00(c) –0– –0– –0–

Net increase (decrease) in net asset value fromoperations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.13 (3.75) .72 1.57 .78

Less: Dividends and Distributions

Dividends from net investment income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (.10) (.39) (.32) (.09) (.05)Distributions from net realized gain on investment

and foreign currency transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– (.28) (.22) –0– (.03)

Total dividends and distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (.10) (.67) (.54) (.09) (.08)

Net asset value, end of period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10.66 $8.63 $13.05 $12.87 $11.39

Total Return

Total investment return based on net assetvalue (d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.88%* (30.01)%* 5.55% 13.92% 7.30%

Ratios/Supplemental Data

Net assets, end of period (000’s omitted) . . . . . . . . . . . . $73,120 $67,526 $10 $11,111 $9,746Ratio to average net assets of:

Expenses, net of waivers/reimbursements . . . . . . . . .69% .75%(e) .76% .99%(e) 1.20%Expenses, before waivers/reimbursements . . . . . . . . .69% .78%(e) .85% 1.07%(e) 1.54%Net investment income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.66% 3.08%(b)(e) 2.33%(b) 2.08%(b)(e) 1.64%(b)

Portfolio turnover rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85% 93% 77% 203% 139%

See footnote summary on page 40.

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BALANCED WEALTH STRATEGY PORTFOLIOFINANCIAL HIGHLIGHTS(continued) AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

Selected Data For A Share Of Capital Stock Outstanding Throughout Each Period

CLASS BYear Ended December 31,

2009 2008 2007 2006 2005

Net asset value, beginning of period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $8.58 $12.97 $12.81 $11.34 $10.67

Income From Investment Operations

Net investment income (a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22 .26(b) .27(b) .22(b) .15(b)Net realized and unrealized gain (loss) on

investment and foreign currency transactions . . . . . 1.86 (4.02) .41 1.33 .60Contributions from Adviser . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– .00(c) –0– –0– –0–

Net increase (decrease) in net asset value fromoperations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.08 (3.76) .68 1.55 .75

Less: Dividends and Distributions

Dividends from net investment income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (.08) (.35) (.30) (.08) (.05)Distributions from net realized gain on investment

and foreign currency transactions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . –0– (.28) (.22) –0– (.03)

Total dividends and distributions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (.08) (.63) (.52) (.08) (.08)

Net asset value, end of period . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10.58 $8.58 $12.97 $12.81 $11.34

Total Return

Total investment return based on net assetvalue (d) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24.45%* (30.20)%* 5.26% 13.75% 7.01%

Ratios/Supplemental Data

Net assets, end of period (000’s omitted) . . . . . . . . . . . . $458,669 $285,962 $211,440 $124,992 $64,325Ratio to average net assets of:

Expenses, net of waivers/reimbursements . . . . . . . . .95% 1.00%(e) 1.01% 1.23%(e) 1.45%Expenses, before waivers/reimbursements . . . . . . . . .95% 1.02%(e) 1.07% 1.31%(e) 1.77%Net investment income . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.36% 2.48%(b)(e) 2.11%(b) 1.84%(b)(e) 1.31%(b)

Portfolio turnover rate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85% 93% 77% 203% 139%

(a) Based on average shares outstanding.

(b) Net of expenses waived or reimbursed by the Adviser.

(c) Amount is less than $.005.

(d) Total investment return is calculated assuming an initial investment made at the net asset value at the beginning of the period,reinvestment of all dividends and distributions at net asset value during the period, and redemption on the last day of the period. Totalreturn does not reflect (i) insurance company’s separate account related expense charges and (ii) the deductions of taxes that a share-holder would pay on Portfolio distributions or the redemption of Portfolio shares. Total investment return calculated for a period ofless than one year is not annualized.

(e) The ratio includes expenses attributable to costs of proxy solicitation.

* Includes the impact of proceeds received and credited to the Portfolio resulting from class action settlements, which enhanced thePortfolio’s performance for the years ended December 31, 2009 and December 31, 2008 by 0.06% and 0.10%, respectively.


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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTEREDPUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

To the Board of Directors ofAllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund, Inc.and Shareholders of AllianceBernstein Balanced Wealth Strategy Portfolio:

We have audited the accompanying statement of assets and liabilities, including the portfolio of investments, ofAllianceBernstein Balanced Wealth Strategy Portfolio (one of the portfolios constituting the AllianceBernstein VariableProducts Series Fund, Inc.) (the “Portfolio”) as of December 31, 2009, and the related statement of operations for the yearthen ended, the statements of changes in net assets for each of the two years in the period then ended, and the financial high-lights for each of the five years in the period then ended. These financial statements and financial highlights are theresponsibility of the Portfolio’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements andfinancial highlights based on our audit.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (UnitedStates). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the finan-cial statements and financial highlights are free of material misstatement. We were not engaged to perform an audit of thePortfolio’s internal control over financial reporting. Our audits included consideration of internal control over financialreporting as a basis for designing audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose ofexpressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Portfolio’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, weexpress no such opinion. An audit also includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosuresin the financial statements and financial highlights, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates madeby management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. Our procedures included confirmation of secu-rities owned as of December 31, 2009 by correspondence with the custodian and others, or by other appropriate auditingprocedures where replies from others were not received. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for ouropinion.

In our opinion, the financial statements and financial highlights referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, thefinancial position of the AllianceBernstein Balanced Wealth Strategy Portfolio of the AllianceBernstein Variable ProductsSeries Fund, Inc. at December 31, 2009, the results of its operations for the year then ended, the changes in its net assets foreach of the two years in the period then ended, and the financial highlights for each of the five years in the period then ended,in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

New York, New YorkFebruary 12, 2010

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TAX INFORMATION (unaudited) AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

For corporate shareholders, 27.65% of the total ordinary income distribution paid during the fiscal year ended December 31,2009 qualifies for the corporate dividends received deduction.

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BALANCED WEALTHSTRATEGY PORTFOLIO AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

BOARD OF DIRECTORSWilliam H. Foulk, Jr.(1), Chairman Nancy P. Jacklin(1)

John H. Dobkin(1) Garry L. Moody(1)

Michael J. Downey(1) Marshall C. Turner, Jr.(1)

D. James Guzy(1) Earl D. Weiner(1)

OFFICERSRobert M. Keith, President and Chief Executive OfficerPhilip L. Kirstein, Senior Vice President and

Independent Compliance OfficerThomas J. Fontaine(2), Vice PresidentDokyoung Lee(2), Vice PresidentSeth J. Masters(2), Vice President

Christopher H. Nikolich(2), Vice PresidentPatrick J. Rudden(2), Vice PresidentEmilie D. Wrapp, SecretaryJoseph J. Mantineo, Treasurer and

Chief Financial OfficerPhyllis J. Clarke, Controller

CUSTODIAN and ACCOUNTING AGENTState Street Bank and Trust CompanyOne Lincoln StreetBoston, MA 02111

LEGAL COUNSELSeward & Kissel LLPOne Battery Park PlazaNew York, NY 10004

DISTRIBUTORAllianceBernstein Investments, Inc.1345 Avenue of the AmericasNew York, NY 10105

TRANSFER AGENTAllianceBernstein Investor Services, Inc.P.O. Box 786003San Antonio, TX 78278-6003Toll-Free 1-(800) 221-5672

INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLICACCOUNTING FIRMErnst & Young LLP5 Times SquareNew York, NY 10036

(1) Member of the Audit Committee, the Governance and Nominating Committee and the Independent Directors Committee. Mr. Foulk isthe sole member of the Fair Value Pricing Committee.

(2) The management of, and investment decisions for, the Portfolio’s portfolio are made by the Multi-Asset Solutions Team, comprised ofsenior portfolio managers. Significant day-to-day responsibilities for coordinating the Portfolio’s investments reside with Messrs.Thomas J. Fontaine, Dokyoung Lee, Seth J. Masters, Christopher H. Nikolich and Patrick J. Rudden.

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BALANCED WEALTHSTRATEGY PORTFOLIO AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

MANAGEMENT OF THE FUNDBoard of Directors InformationThe business and affairs of the Fund are managed under the direction of the Board of Directors. Certain information concern-ing the Fund’s Directors is set forth below.

NAME, ADDRESS*,AGE

(YEAR ELECTED**)

PRINCIPALOCCUPATION(S)

DURING PAST 5 YEARS

PORTFOLIOSIN FUND

COMPLEXOVERSEEN BY

DIRECTOR

OTHERDIRECTORSHIP

HELD BYDIRECTOR

DISINTERESTED DIRECTORS

William H. Foulk, Jr., #, ***Chairman of the Board77(1990)

Investment Adviser and an Independent Consultant.Previously, he was Senior Manager of BarrettAssociates, Inc., a registered investment adviser, withwhich he had been associated since prior to 2005. Hewas formerly Deputy Comptroller and ChiefInvestment Officer of the State of New York and,prior thereto, Chief Investment Officer of the NewYork Bank for Savings.

90 None

John H. Dobkin, #68(1992)

Consultant. Formerly, President of Save Venice, Inc.(preservation organization) from 2001–2002, SeniorAdvisor from June 1999–June 2000 and President ofHistoric Hudson Valley (historic preservation) fromDecember 1989–May 1999. Previously, Director ofthe National Academy of Design.

88 None

Michael J. Downey, #66(2005)

Private Investor since prior to 2005. Formerly,managing partner of Lexington Capital, LLC(investment advisory firm) from December 1997 untilDecember 2003. From 1987 until 1993, Chairman andCEO of Prudential Mutual Fund Management.

88 Asia Pacific Fund, Inc.and The Merger Fund

D. James Guzy, #73(2005)

Chairman of the Board of PLX Technology (semi-conductors) and of SRC Computers Inc., with whichhe has been associated since prior to 2005. He wasformerly a Director of the Intel Corporation (semi-conductors) until May 2008.

88 Cirrus Logic Corporation(semi-conductors)

Nancy P. Jacklin, #61(2006)

Professorial Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins School ofAdvanced International Studies in the 2009–2010academic year. Formerly, U.S. Executive Director ofthe International Monetary Fund (December 2002–May 2006); Partner, Clifford Chance (1992–2002);Sector Counsel, International Banking and Finance,and Associate General Counsel, Citicorp (1985–1992); Assistant General Counsel (International),Federal Reserve Board of Governors (1982–1985);and Attorney Advisor, U.S. Department of theTreasury (1973–1982). Member of the Bar of theDistrict of Columbia and of New York; and memberof the Council on Foreign Relations.

88 None

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NAME, ADDRESS*,AGE

(YEAR ELECTED**)

PRINCIPALOCCUPATION(S)

DURING PAST 5 YEARS

PORTFOLIOSIN FUND

COMPLEXOVERSEEN BY

DIRECTOR

OTHERDIRECTORSHIP

HELD BYDIRECTOR

DISINTERESTED DIRECTORS(continued)

Garry L. Moody, #57(2008)

Formerly, Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP, Vice-Chairman, and U.S. and Global Managing Partner,Investment Management Services Group 1995–2008.

87 None

Marshall C. Turner, Jr., #68(2005)

Interim CEO of MEMC Electronic Materials, Inc.(semi-conductor and solar cell substrates) fromNovember 2008 until March 2, 2009. He wasChairman and CEO of Dupont Photomasks, Inc.(components of semi-conductor manufacturing),2003–2005, and President and CEO, 2005–2006, afterthe company was renamed Toppan Photomasks, Inc.

88 Xilinx, Inc.(programmable

logic semi-conductors) and

MEMC ElectronicMaterials, Inc.

Earl D. Weiner, #70(2007)

Of Counsel, and Partner prior to January 2007, of thelaw firm Sullivan & Cromwell LLP; and member ofABA Federal Regulation of Securities CommitteeTask Force on Fund Director’s Guidebook.

88 None

* The address for each of the Fund’s disinterested Directors is c/o AllianceBernstein L.P., Attention: Philip L. Kirstein, 1345 Avenueof the Americas, New York, NY 10105.

** There is no stated term of office for the Fund’s Directors.

*** Member of the Fair Value Pricing Committee.

# Member of the Audit Committee, the Governance and Nominating Committee and the Independent Directors Committee.

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BALANCED WEALTH STRATEGY PORTFOLIOMANAGEMENT OF THE FUND(continued) AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

Officer Information

Certain information concerning the Fund’s Officers is listed below.

NAME, ADDRESS*AND AGE

PRINCIPAL POSITION(S)HELD WITH FUND

PRINCIPAL OCCUPATIONDURING PAST 5 YEARS

Robert M. Keith49

President and ChiefExecutive Officer

Executive Vice President of the Adviser** and head ofAllianceBernstein Investments, Inc. (“ABI”)** since July2008; Director of ABI and the President of theAllianceBernstein Mutual Funds. Previously, he servedas Executive Managing Director of ABI from December2006 to June 2008. Prior to joining ABI in 2006,Executive Managing Director of Bernstein GlobalWealth Management, and prior thereto, Senior ManagingDirector and Global Head of Client Service and Sales ofthe Adviser’s institutional investment managementbusiness since 2004. Prior thereto, Managing Directorand Head of North American Client Service and Sales inthe Adviser’s institutional investment managementbusiness, with which he had been associated since priorto 2005.

Philip L. Kirstein64

Senior Vice President andIndependent Compliance Officer

Senior Vice President and Independent ComplianceOfficer of the AllianceBernstein Funds, with which hehas been associated since October 2004. Prior thereto, hewas Of Counsel to Kirkpatrick & Lockhart, LLP fromOctober 2003 to October 2004, and General Counsel ofMerrill Lynch Investment Managers, L.P. since prior to2005.

Thomas J. Fontaine44

Vice President Senior Vice President of the Adviser**, with which hehas been associated since prior to 2005.

Dokyoung Lee44


Seth J. Masters50

Vice President Executive Vice President of the Adviser**, with whichhe has been associated since prior to 2005.

Christopher H. Nikolich40


Patrick J. Rudden47


Emilie D. Wrapp54

Secretary Senior Vice President, Assistant General Counsel andAssistant Secretary of ABI**, with which she has beenassociated since prior to 2005.

Joseph J. Mantineo50

Treasurer and ChiefFinancial Officer

Senior Vice President of AllianceBernstein InvestorServices, Inc. (“ABIS”)**, with which he has beenassociated since prior to 2005.

Phyllis J. Clarke49

Controller Vice President of the ABIS**, with which she has beenassociated since prior to 2005.

* The address for each of the Fund’s Officers is 1345 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10105.

** The Adviser, ABI, and ABIS are affiliates of the Fund.

The Fund’s Statement of Additional Information (“SAI”) has additional information about the Fund’s Directors and Officers and isavailable without charge upon request. Contact your financial representative or AllianceBernstein at (800) 227-4618 for a free pro-spectus or SAI.

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BALANCED WEALTH STRATEGY PORTFOLIOCONTINUANCE DISCLOSURE AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

INFORMATION REGARDING THE REVIEW AND APPROVAL OF THE PORTFOLIO’S ADVISORY AGREEMENTThe disinterested directors (the “directors”) of AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund, Inc. (the “Fund”) unan-imously approved the continuance of the Fund’s Advisory Agreement with the Adviser in respect of AllianceBernsteinBalanced Wealth Strategy Portfolio (the “Portfolio”) at a meeting held on August 4-6, 2009.

Prior to approval of the continuance of the Advisory Agreement, the directors had requested from the Adviser, and receivedand evaluated, extensive materials. They reviewed the proposed continuance of the Advisory Agreement with the Adviserand with experienced counsel who are independent of the Adviser, who advised on the relevant legal standards. The direc-tors also reviewed an independent evaluation prepared by the Fund’s Senior Officer (who is also the Fund’s IndependentCompliance Officer) of the reasonableness of the advisory fee in the Advisory Agreement wherein the Senior Officer con-cluded that the contractual fee for the Portfolio was reasonable. The directors also discussed the proposed continuance inprivate sessions with counsel and the Fund’s Senior Officer.

The directors considered their knowledge of the nature and quality of the services provided by the Adviser to the Portfoliogained from their experience as directors or trustees of most of the registered investment companies advised by the Adviser,their overall confidence in the Adviser’s integrity and competence they have gained from that experience, the Adviser’s ini-tiative in identifying and raising potential issues with the directors and its responsiveness, frankness and attention to concernsraised by the directors in the past, including the Adviser’s willingness to consider and implement organizational and opera-tional changes designed to improve investment results and the services provided to the AllianceBernstein Funds. The direc-tors noted that they have four regular meetings each year, at each of which they receive presentations from the Adviser onthe investment results of the Portfolio and review extensive materials and information presented by the Adviser.

The directors also considered all other factors they believed relevant, including the specific matters discussed below. In theirdeliberations, the directors did not identify any particular information that was all-important or controlling, and differentdirectors may have attributed different weights to the various factors. The directors determined that the selection of theAdviser to manage the Portfolio and the overall arrangements between the Portfolio and the Adviser, as provided in theAdvisory Agreement, including the advisory fee, were fair and reasonable in light of the services performed, expensesincurred and such other matters as the directors considered relevant in the exercise of their business judgment. The materialfactors and conclusions that formed the basis for the directors’ determinations included the following:

Nature, Extent and Quality of Services ProvidedThe directors considered the scope and quality of services provided by the Adviser under the Advisory Agreement, includingthe quality of the investment research capabilities of the Adviser and the other resources it has dedicated to performing serv-ices for the Portfolio. They noted the professional experience and qualifications of the Portfolio’s portfolio managementteam and other senior personnel of the Adviser. The directors also considered that the Advisory Agreement provides that thePortfolio will reimburse the Adviser for the cost to it of providing certain clerical, accounting, administrative and other serv-ices provided at the Portfolio’s request by employees of the Adviser or its affiliates. Requests for these reimbursements areapproved by the directors on a quarterly basis and, to the extent requested and paid, result in a higher rate of total compensa-tion from the Portfolio to the Adviser than the fee rate stated in the Portfolio’s Advisory Agreement. The directors noted thatthe methodology used to determine the reimbursement amounts had been reviewed by an independent consultant retained bythe Fund’s Senior Officer. The directors noted that the Adviser had waived reimbursement payments from the Portfolio inthe Portfolio’s last fiscal year. The quality of administrative and other services, including the Adviser’s role in coordinatingthe activities of the Portfolio’s other service providers, also were considered. The directors concluded that, overall, they weresatisfied with the nature, extent and quality of services provided to the Portfolio under the Advisory Agreement.

Costs of Services Provided and ProfitabilityThe directors reviewed a schedule of the revenues, expenses and related notes indicating the profitability of the Portfolio tothe Adviser for calendar years 2007 and 2008 that had been prepared with an expense allocation methodology arrived at inconsultation with an independent consultant retained by the Fund’s Senior Officer. The directors reviewed the assumptionsand methods of allocation used by the Adviser in preparing fund-specific profitability data and noted that there are a numberof potentially acceptable allocation methodologies for information of this type. The directors noted that the profitabilityinformation reflected all revenues and expenses of the Adviser’s relationship with the Portfolio, including those relating to itssubsidiaries which provide transfer agency, distribution and brokerage services to the Portfolio. The directors recognized thatit is difficult to make comparisons of profitability between fund advisory contracts because comparative information is notgenerally publicly available and is affected by numerous factors. The directors focused on the profitability of the Adviser’s

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relationship with the Portfolio before taxes and distribution expenses. The directors concluded that they were satisfied thatthe Adviser’s level of profitability from its relationship with the Portfolio was not unreasonable.

Fall-Out BenefitsThe directors considered the benefits to the Adviser and its affiliates from their relationships with the Portfolio other than thefees and expense reimbursements payable under the Advisory Agreement, including but not limited to benefits relating tosoft dollar arrangements (whereby the Adviser receives brokerage and research services from many of the brokers and deal-ers that execute purchases and sales of securities on behalf of its clients on an agency basis), 12b-1 fees and sales chargesreceived by the Fund’s principal underwriter (which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Adviser) in respect of the Portfo-lio’s Class B shares, transfer agency fees paid by the Portfolio to a wholly owned subsidiary of the Adviser, and brokeragecommissions paid by the Portfolio to brokers affiliated with the Adviser. The directors recognized that the Adviser’s profit-ability would be somewhat lower without these benefits. The directors also understood that the Adviser also might derivereputational and other benefits from its association with the Portfolio.

Investment ResultsIn addition to the information reviewed by the directors in connection with the meeting, the directors receive detailed per-formance information for the Portfolio at each regular Board meeting during the year. At the August 2009 meeting, thedirectors reviewed information prepared by Lipper showing the performance of the Class A Shares of the Portfolio as com-pared with that of a group of similar funds selected by Lipper (the “Performance Group”) and as compared with that of abroader array of funds selected by Lipper (the “Performance Universe”), and information prepared by the Adviser showingperformance of the Class A Shares as compared with a composite index (60% Standard & Poor’s 500 Stock Index/40%Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Index) (the “Index”), in each case for the 1- and 3-year periods ended April 30, 2009 and(in the case of comparisons with the Index) the since inception period (July 2004 inception). The directors noted that thePortfolio was in the 5th quintile of the Performance Group and the Performance Universe for the 1- and 3-year periods andthat the Portfolio lagged the Index in the 1- and 3-year and since inception periods. The directors also reviewed performanceinformation for periods ended June 30, 2009 (for which the data was not limited to Class A Shares), and noted that, whenMay and June results were taken into consideration, relative performance had improved in 2009, that in the year-to-dateperiod the Portfolio had outperformed the Index but lagged the Lipper VA Mixed-Asset Target Allocation Moderate FundsAverage (the “Lipper Average”), and that in the 3-month period the Portfolio had outperformed the Lipper Average and theIndex. Based on their review, the directors concluded that the Portfolio’s relative performance was acceptable.

Advisory Fees and Other ExpensesThe directors considered the advisory fee rate paid by the Portfolio to the Adviser and information prepared by Lipper con-cerning advisory fee rates paid by other funds in the same Lipper category as the Portfolio at a common asset level. Thedirectors recognized that it is difficult to make comparisons of advisory fees because there are variations in the services thatare included in the fees paid by other funds.

The Adviser informed the directors that there are no institutional products managed by it that have an investment style sub-stantially similar to that of the Portfolio. The directors reviewed the relevant fee information from the Adviser’s Form ADVand noted that the Adviser charged institutional clients lower fees for advising comparably sized institutional accounts usingstrategies that differ from those of the Portfolio but which involved investments in securities of the same type that thePortfolio invests in (i.e., equity and debt securities). The directors also noted that the Adviser advises a portfolio of anotherAllianceBernstein fund with a similar investment style as the Portfolio for the same fee schedule as the Portfolio.

The Adviser reviewed with the directors the significantly greater scope of the services it provides to the Portfolio relative toinstitutional clients. The Adviser also noted that because mutual funds are constantly issuing and redeeming shares, they aremore difficult to manage than an institutional account, where the assets tend to be relatively stable. In light of these facts, thedirectors did not place significant weight on these fee comparisons.

The directors also considered the total expense ratio of the Class A shares of the Portfolio in comparison to the fees andexpenses of funds within two comparison groups created by Lipper: an Expense Group and an Expense Universe. Lipperdescribed an Expense Group as a representative sample of funds comparable to the Portfolio and an Expense Universe as abroader group, consisting of all funds in the Portfolio’s investment classification/objective. The Class A expense ratio of thePortfolio was based on the Portfolio’s latest fiscal year. The directors noted that the Lipper information included the proforma expense ratio for Class A Shares provided by the Adviser assuming the Portfolio’s acquisition of the Fund’s

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AllianceBernstein Balanced Shares Portfolio, effective September 2008, had been in effect for the Portfolio’s full fiscal year(fiscal year began January 1). All references to the expense ratio are to the Portfolio’s pro forma expense ratio. The directorsnoted that it was likely that the expense ratios of some funds in the Portfolio’s Lipper category were lowered by waivers orreimbursements by those funds’ investment advisers, which in some cases were voluntary and perhaps temporary. Thedirectors view the expense ratio information as relevant to their evaluation of the Adviser’s services because the Adviser isresponsible for coordinating services provided to the Portfolio by others.

The directors noted that, at the Portfolio’s current size, its contractual effective advisory fee rate of 55 basis points, plus the 3basis point impact of the administrative expense reimbursement in the latest fiscal year, was lower than the Expense Groupmedian. The directors noted that in the Portfolio’s latest fiscal year, 1 basis point out of 4 basis points of the administrativeexpense reimbursement had been waived by the Adviser. The directors noted that, in light of the Portfolio’s historicalinvestment performance, they had asked the Adviser to address the continued appropriateness of the Portfolio’s fee rate. Inresponse the Adviser informed the directors that the Adviser had begun to implement changes and enhancements to addressinvestment performance and discussed the new leadership for the Adviser effective December 2008. The Adviser furthernoted, among other things, that while it would take time to realize the benefits of these changes, relative investmentperformance in 2009 had shown improvement. The directors noted that they had discussed their concerns about the relativeperformance of a number of other AllianceBernstein funds with senior management of the Adviser. The directors also notedthat the Portfolio’s pro-forma total expense ratio, which had been capped by the Adviser (although the pro forma expenseratio was currently lower than the cap), was lower than the Expense Group and the Expense Universe medians. The directorsconcluded that the Portfolio’s pro forma expense ratio was satisfactory.

Economies of ScaleThe directors noted that the advisory fee schedule for the Portfolio contains breakpoints that reduce the fee rates on assetsabove specified levels. The directors also considered presentations by an independent consultant discussing economies ofscale in the mutual fund industry and for the AllianceBernstein Funds, as well as a presentation by the Adviser concerningcertain of its views on economies of scale. The directors believe that economies of scale may be realized (if at all) by theAdviser across a variety of products and services, and not only in respect of a single fund. The directors noted that there is noestablished methodology for establishing breakpoints that give effect to fund-specific services provided by a fund’s adviserand to the economies of scale that an adviser may realize in its overall mutual fund business or those components of it whichdirectly or indirectly affect a fund’s operations. The directors observed that in the mutual fund industry as a whole, as well asamong funds similar to the Portfolio, there is no uniformity or pattern in the fees and asset levels at which breakpoints (ifany) apply. The directors also noted that the advisory agreements for many funds do not have breakpoints at all. Havingtaken these factors into account, the directors concluded that the Portfolio’s breakpoint arrangements would result in a shar-ing of economies of scale in the event the Portfolio’s net assets exceed a breakpoint in the future.

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ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN BALANCED WEALTH STRATEGY PORTFOLIOSENIOR OFFICER FEE EVALUATION AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

THE FOLLOWING IS NOT PART OF THE SHAREHOLDER REPORT OR THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

SUMMARY OF SENIOR OFFICER’S EVALUATION OF INVESTMENT ADVISORY AGREEMENT1

The following is a summary of the evaluation of the Investment Advisory Agreement between AllianceBernstein L.P. (the“Adviser”) and the AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund (the “Fund”), in respect of AllianceBernstein BalancedWealth Strategy Portfolio2 (the “Portfolio”).3 The evaluation of the Investment Advisory Agreement was prepared by PhilipL. Kirstein, the Senior Officer of the Fund, for the Directors of the Fund, as required by the August 2004 agreement betweenthe Adviser and the New York State Attorney General (the “NYAG”). The Senior Officer’s evaluation of the InvestmentAdvisory Agreement is not meant to diminish the responsibility or authority of the Board of Directors of the Fund to performits duties pursuant to Section 15 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the “40 Act”) and applicable state law. The pur-pose of the summary is to provide shareholders with a synopsis of the independent evaluation of the reasonableness of theadvisory fees proposed to be paid by the Portfolio which was provided to the Directors in connection with their review of theproposed approval of the continuance of the Investment Advisory Agreement. The Senior Officer’s evaluation consideredthe following factors:

1. Management fees charged to institutional and other clients of the Adviser for like services;

2. Management fees charged by other mutual fund companies for like services;

3. Costs to the Adviser and its affiliates of supplying services pursuant to the advisory agreement, excluding any intra-corporate profit;

4. Profit margins of the Adviser and its affiliates from supplying such services;

5. Possible economies of scale as the Portfolio grows larger; and

6. Nature and quality of the Adviser’s services including the performance of the Portfolio.

INVESTMENT ADVISORY FEES, EXPENSE REIMBURSEMENTS & CAPSThe Adviser proposed that the Portfolio pay the advisory fee set forth in the table below for receiving the services to be pro-vided pursuant to the Investment Advisory Agreement. The fee schedule below, implemented in January 2004 in consid-eration of the Adviser’s settlement with the NYAG in December 2003, is based on a master schedule that contemplates eightcategories4 of funds with almost all funds in each category having the same advisory fee schedule.5

CategoryAdvisory Fee Based on % of

Average Daily Net Assets

Net Assets06/30/09($MIL) Portfolio

Balanced 55 bp on 1st $2.5 billion45 bp on next $2.5 billion40 bp on the balance

$413.2 Balanced WealthStrategy Portfolio

The Adviser is reimbursed as specified in the Investment Advisory Agreement for certain clerical, legal, accounting, admin-istrative and other services provided to the Portfolio. During the Portfolio’s most recently completed fiscal year, the Adviserwas entitled to receive $92,750 (0.04% of the Portfolio’s average daily net assets) for such services but waived $22,000(0.01%) of the expense reimbursement.

1 It should be noted that the information in the fee summary was completed on July 23, 2009 and presented to the Board of Directors onAugust 4-6, 2009.

2 The Portfolio merged with AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund—Balanced Shares Portfolio (“Balanced SharesPortfolio”) on September 26, 2008. Therefore, the Portfolio’s expenses for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2008 is not inclusiveof Balanced Shares Portfolio’s expenses from January 1, 2008 through September 25, 2008.

3 Future references to the Fund and the Portfolio do not include “AllianceBernstein.” References in the fee summary pertaining to per-formance and expense ratios refer to the Class A shares of the Portfolio.

4 The seven other categories that do not apply to any of the Portfolios listed and are not shown in the table below are Blend, Growth,Value, International, High Income, Low Risk Income and Specialty.

5 The AllianceBernstein Mutual Funds, which the Adviser manages, were also affected by the Adviser’s settlement with the NYAG.AllianceBernstein Balanced Shares, Inc., which the Adviser also manages, has lower breakpoints in its advisory fee schedule com-pared to the Balanced category: 60 bp on the first $200 million, 50 bp on the next $200 million, 40 bp on the balance.

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The Adviser agreed to waive that portion of its management fees and/or reimburse a portion of the Portfolio’s total operatingexpense to the degree necessary to limit the Portfolio’s expense ratios to the amounts set forth below for the Portfolio’s cur-rent fiscal year. The waiver is terminable by the Adviser on May 1st of each year upon at least 60 days of written notice.Also set forth below are the Portfolio’s gross expense ratios as of December 31, 2008:

Portfolio

Expense Cap Pursuantto Expense Limitation

Undertaking

GrossExpense

Ratio(12/31/08) Fiscal Year End

Balanced Wealth Strategy Portfolio Class A 0.75%Class B 1.00%

0.78%1.02%

December 31

I. MANAGEMENT FEES CHARGED TO INSTITUTIONAL AND OTHER CLIENTSThe advisory fees charged to investment companies which the Adviser manages and sponsors are normally higher than thosecharged to similar sized institutional accounts, including pension plans and sub-advised investment companies. The fee dif-ferential reflects, among other things, different services provided to such clients, and different liabilities assumed. Servicesprovided by the Adviser to the Portfolio that are not provided to non-investment company clients and sub-advised invest-ment companies include providing office space and personnel to serve as Fund Officers, who among other responsibilitiesmake the certifications required under the Sarbanes–Oxley Act of 2002, and coordinating with and monitoring the Portfo-lio’s third party service providers such as Fund counsel, auditors, custodians, transfer agents and pricing services. Theaccounting, administrative, legal and compliance requirements for the Portfolio are more costly than those for institutionalassets due to the greater complexities and time required for investment companies, although as previously noted, a portion ofthese expenses are reimbursed by the Portfolio to the Adviser. Also, retail mutual funds managed by the Adviser are widelyheld. Servicing the Portfolio’s investors is more time consuming and labor intensive compared to institutional clients sincethe Adviser needs to communicate with a more extensive network of financial intermediaries and shareholders. The Adviseralso believes that it incurs substantial entrepreneurial risk when offering a new mutual fund since establishing a new mutualfund requires a large upfront investment, and it may take a long time for the fund to achieve profitability since the fund mustbe priced to scale from inception in order to be competitive and assets are acquired one account at a time. In addition,managing the cash flow of an investment company may be more difficult than managing a stable pool of assets, such as aninstitutional account with little cash movement in either direction, particularly, if a fund is in net redemption and the Adviseris frequently forced to sell securities to raise cash for redemptions. However, managing a fund with positive cash flow maybe easier at times than managing a stable pool of assets. Finally, in recent years, investment advisers have been sued byinstitutional clients and have suffered reputational damage both by the attendant publicity and outcomes other than completevictories. Accordingly, the legal and reputational risks associated with institutional accounts are greater than previouslythought, although still not equal to those related to the mutual fund industry.

Notwithstanding the Adviser’s view that managing an investment company is not comparable to managing other institu-tional accounts because the services provided are different and legal and reputational risks are greater, it is worth consideringinformation regarding the advisory fees charged to institutional accounts with a substantially similar investment style as thePortfolio.6 With respect to the Portfolio, the Adviser represented that there is no category in the Form ADV for institutionalproducts that has a similar investment style as the Portfolio.

6 The Adviser has indicated that with respect to institutional accounts with assets greater than $300 million, it will negotiate a feeschedule. Discounts that are negotiated vary based upon each client relationship.

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ALLIANCEBERNSTEIN BALANCED WEALTH STRATEGY PORTFOLIOSENIOR OFFICER FEE EVALUATION(continued) AllianceBernstein Variable Products Series Fund

The Adviser also manages AllianceBernstein Balanced Wealth Strategy, a retail mutual fund, which has a similar investmentstyle as the Portfolio. It should be noted that AllianceBernstein Balanced Shares, Inc., a retail mutual fund that is sub-stantially similar as Balanced Shares Portfolio, which Balanced Wealth Strategy Portfolio acquired in September 2008, hasan advisory fee schedule with breakpoints lower than the category fee schedule contemplated by the Adviser’s agreementwith the NYAG.7 Set forth below is the fee schedule of AllianceBernstein Balanced Wealth Strategy:8

PortfolioAllianceBernstein

Mutual Fund (“ABMF”) Fee Schedule

Balanced Wealth Strategy Portfolio Balanced Wealth Strategy 0.55% on first $2.5 billion0.45% on next $2.5 billion0.40% on the balance

The Adviser also manages and sponsors retail mutual funds, which are organized in jurisdictions outside the United States,generally Luxembourg and Japan, and sold to non-United States resident investors. The Adviser charges the following feesfor Global Balanced Portfolio, which is a Luxembourg fund that has a somewhat similar investment style as the Portfolio:

Portfolio Luxembourg Fund Fee

Balanced Wealth Strategy Global Balanced Portfolio Class A9 1.40%Class I (Institutional) 0.70%

The AllianceBernstein Investment Trust Management mutual funds (“ITM”), which are offered to investors in Japan, havean “all-in” fee to compensate the Adviser for investment advisory as well as fund accounting and administrative services.The fee schedule of the ITM mutual fund that has a somewhat similar investment style as the Portfolio is as follows:

Portfolio ITM Mutual Fund Fee

Balanced Wealth Strategy Portfolio Alliance Global Balance Neutral10 0.70%

The Adviser represented that it does not sub-advise any registered investment company with a substantially similar invest-ment style as the Portfolio.

II. MANAGEMENT FEES CHARGED BY OTHER MUTUAL FUND COMPANIES FOR LIKE SERVICES.Lipper, Inc. (“Lipper”), an analytical service that is not affiliated with the Adviser, compared the fees charged to the Portfo-lio with fees charged to other investment companies for similar services offered by other investment advisers. Lipper’sanalysis included the Portfolio’s ranking with respect to the proposed management fee relative to the median of the Portfo-lio’s Lipper Expense Group (“EG”)11 at the approximate current asset level of the Portfolio.12

7 There was no change to the advisory fee schedule of AllianceBernstein Balanced Shares, Inc. since the retail mutual fund had alreadylower breakpoints than that of the NYAG related category: 60 bp on first $200 million, 50 bp on the next $200 million, 40 bp on thebalance.

8 It should be noted that the ABMF was also affected by the settlement between the Adviser and the NYAG. As a result, the Portfoliohas the same breakpoints in its advisory fee schedule as the ABMF.

9 Class A shares of the Luxembourg funds are charged an “all-in” fee, which covers investment advisory and distribution-related serv-ices, unlike Class I shares, whose fee is for only investment advisory services.

10 This ITM fund is privately placed or institutional.

11 Note that Lipper does not consider average account size when constructing EGs. Funds with relatively small average account sizestend to have higher transfer agent expense ratios than comparable sized funds that have relatively large average account sizes. Notethat there are limitations on Lipper expense category data because different funds categorize expenses differently.

12 The contractual management fee is calculated by Lipper using the Portfolio’s contractual management fee rate at a hypothetical assetlevel. The hypothetical asset level is based on the combined net assets of all classes of the Portfolio, rounded up to the next $25 mil-lion. Lipper’s total expense ratio information is based on the most recent annual report except as otherwise noted. A ranking of “1”would mean that the Portfolio had the lowest effective fee rate in the Lipper peer group.

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Lipper describes an EG as a representative sample of comparable funds. Lipper’s standard methodology for screening fundsto be included in an EG entails the consideration of several fund criteria, including fund type, investment classification/objective, load type and similar 12b-1/non-12b-1 service fees, asset (size) comparability, expense components and attributes.An EG will typically consist of seven to twenty funds.

Portfolio

ContractualManagement

Fee13

LipperGroupMedian

(%) Rank

Balanced Wealth Strategy Portfolio 0.550 0.650 5/11

Lipper also analyzed the Portfolio’s most recently completed fiscal year total expense ratio in comparison to the Portfolio’sEG and Lipper Expense Universe (“EU”). The EU14 is a broader group compared to the EG, consisting of all funds that havethe same investment classification/objective and load type as the subject Portfolio. Supplemental pro-forma information(shown in bold and italicized) is also provided to illustrate the effect of the Portfolio’s merger with Balanced Shares Portfolioon the Balanced Wealth Strategy’s Portfolio’s total expense ratio.15

It should be noted that Lipper uses expense ratio data from financial statements of the most current fiscal year in their data-base. This has several implications: the total expense ratio of each fund that Lipper uses in their report is based on eachfund’s average net assets during its fiscal year. Since funds have different fiscal year ends, the total expense ratios of thefunds may cover different twelve month periods, depending on the funds’ fiscal year ends. This is the process that Lipperutilizes but given bear market conditions during 2008, especially the last three months of 2008, the effects on the Portfolio’stotal expense ratios caused by the differences in fiscal year ends may be more pronounced in 2008 compared to other yearsunder more normal market conditions.16

Portfolio

ExpenseRatio(%)17

Lipper Exp.Group

Median (%)

LipperGroupRank

Lipper Exp.Universe

Median (%)

LipperUniverse

Rank

Balanced Wealth StrategyPortfolio 0.750 0.720 6/11 0.713 14/25

pro-forma 0.690 0.720 6/11 0.713 12/25

Based on this analysis, the Portfolio has a more favorable ranking on a management fee basis than it does on a pro formatotal expense ratio basis. In addition to Lipper’s expense comparisons, the fee evaluation presented the Portfolio’s monthlynet assets and unaudited advisory fee and total expense ratio run rates from December 31, 2007 through April 30, 2009.18

III. COSTS TO THE ADVISER AND ITS AFFILIATES OF SUPPLYING SERVICES PURSUANT TO THE ADVISORY FEEARRANGEMENT, EXCLUDING ANY INTRA-CORPORATE PROFIT.At the May 5, 2009 Board meeting, members of the Adviser’s Controller’s Office presented the Adviser’s revenue andexpenses associated with providing services to the Portfolios. See discussion below in Section IV.

IV. PROFIT MARGINS OF THE ADVISER AND ITS AFFILIATES FOR SUPPLYING SUCH SERVICES.The Portfolio’s profitability information, prepared by the Adviser for the Board of Directors, was reviewed by the SeniorOfficer and the consultant. The Adviser’s profitability from providing investment advisory services to the Portfoliodecreased during calendar year 2008, relative to 2007.

13 The contractual management fee would not reflect any expense reimbursements made by the Portfolio to the Adviser for certain cler-ical, legal, accounting, administrative and other services. As previously noted, the Adviser waived part of such reimbursements duringthe most recently completed fiscal year. In addition, the contractual management fee does not reflect any advisory fee waivers orexpense caps that would effectively reduce the actual management fee.

14 Except for asset (size) comparability, Lipper uses the same criteria for selecting an EG when selecting an EU. Unlike the EG, the EUallows for the same adviser to be represented by more than just one fund.

15 The pro-forma expense ratio shows what would have been the total expense ratio of the Portfolio had the Portfolio’s merger been ineffect for the full fiscal year (from January 31, 2008 through December 31, 2008).

16 To cite an example, the average net assets and total expense ratio of a fund with a fiscal year end of March 31, 2008 will not bereflective of the market declines that occurred in the second half of 2008, in contrast to a fund with a fiscal year end of December 31,2008.

17 Most recently completed fiscal year Class A total expense ratio.

18 Unaudited information on the Portfolio’s advisory fee and total expense ratio monthly run rates was provided by the Adviser.

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In addition to the Adviser’s direct profits from managing the Portfolio, certain of the Adviser’s affiliates have business rela-tionships with the Portfolio and may earn a profit from providing other services to the Portfolio. The courts have referred tothis type of business opportunity as “fall-out benefits” to the Adviser and indicated that such benefits should be factored intothe evaluation of the total relationship between the Portfolio and the Adviser. Neither case law nor common business prac-tice precludes the Adviser’s affiliates from earning a reasonable profit on this type of relationship. These affiliates providetransfer agent, distribution and brokerage related services to the Portfolio and receive transfer agent fees, Rule 12b-1 pay-ments, and brokerage commissions. In addition, the Adviser benefits from soft dollar arrangements which offset researchexpenses the Adviser would otherwise incur.

The Portfolio has adopted a distribution plan for Class B shares pursuant to Rule 12b-1 under the 40 Act. Under the dis-tribution plan, the Portfolio pays distribution and servicing fees to its principal underwriter and distributor, AllianceBernsteinInvestments, Inc. (“ABI”), an affiliate of the Adviser, at an annual rate of up to 0.50% of the Portfolio’s average daily netassets attributable to Class B shares. The current annual rate that the Portfolio pays to ABI for 12b-1 fees is 0.25%. Duringthe fiscal year ended December 31, 2008, ABI received $611,940 in Rule 12b-1 fees from the Portfolio.

The Adviser may compensate ABI for payments made by ABI to brokers for registration fees and services related to print-ing, distribution and advertising in connection with Class B shares. During the fiscal year ended December 31, 2008, theAdviser determined that it made payments in the amount of $240,744 on behalf of the Portfolio to ABI.

Financial intermediaries, such as insurers, market and sell shares of the Portfolio and typically receive compensation fromABI, the Advisers and/or the Portfolio for selling shares of the Portfolio. These financial intermediaries receive compensa-tion in any or all of the following forms: 12b-1 fees, defrayal of costs for educational seminars and training, additional dis-tribution support, recordkeeping and/or administrative services. Payments related to providing contract-holder recordkeepingand/or administrative services will generally not exceed 0.35% of the average daily net assets of the Portfolio attributable tothe relevant intermediary over the year.

The transfer agent of the Portfolio is AllianceBernstein Investor Services, Inc. (“ABIS”)19. For the fiscal year endedDecember 31, 2008, the Portfolio paid ABIS a fee of approximately $969.20

The Portfolio effected brokerage transactions through the Adviser’s affiliate, Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., LLC (“SCB &Co.”) and/or its U.K. affiliate, Sanford C. Bernstein Limited (“SCB Ltd.”), collectively “SCB,” and paid commissions forsuch transactions during the Portfolio’s most recently completed fiscal year. The Adviser represented that SCB’s profitabilityfrom any business conducted with the Portfolio is comparable to the profitability of SCB’s dealings with other similar thirdparty clients. In the ordinary course of business, SCB receives and pays liquidity rebates from electronic communicationsnetworks (“ECNs”) derived from trading for its clients, including the Portfolio. These credits and charges are not beingpassed onto any SCB client. The Adviser also receives certain soft dollar benefits from brokers that execute agency tradesfor its clients. These soft dollar benefits reduce the Adviser’s research expenses and increase its profitability.

V. POSSIBLE ECONOMIES OF SCALEThe Adviser has indicated that economies of scale are being shared with shareholders through fee structures,21 subsidies andenhancement to services. Based on some of the professional literature that has considered economies of scale in the mutualfund industry, it is thought that to the extent economies of scale exist, they may more often exist across a fund family asopposed to a specific fund. This is because the costs incurred by the Adviser, such as investment research or technology fortrading or compliance systems can be spread across a greater asset base as the fund family increases in size. It is also possi-ble that as the level of services required to operate a successful investment company has increased over time, and advisoryfirms make such investments in their business to provide services, there may be a sharing of economies of scale without areduction in advisory fees.

19 It should be noted that the insurance companies, linked to the variable products, provide additional shareholder services for thePortfolios, including record keeping, administration and customer service for contract holders.

20 The Fund (which includes the Portfolio and other series of the Fund) paid ABIS a flat fee of $18,000 in 2008.

21 Fee structures include fee reductions, pricing at scale and breakpoints in advisory fee schedules.

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An independent consultant, retained by the Senior Officer, provided the Board of Directors an update of the Deli22 study onadvisory fees and various fund characteristics. The independent consultant first reiterated the results of his previous twodimensional comparison analysis (fund size and family size) with the Board of Directors.23 The independent consultant thendiscussed the results of the regression model that was utilized to study the effects of various factors on advisory fees. Theregression model output indicated that the bulk of the variation in fees predicted were explained by various factors, but sub-stantially by fund AUM, family AUM, index fund indicator and investment style. The independent consultant also comparedthe advisory fees of the AllianceBernstein Mutual Funds to similar funds managed by 19 other large asset managers, regard-less of the fund size and each Adviser’s proportion of mutual fund assets to non-mutual fund assets.

VI. NATURE AND QUALITY OF THE ADVISER’S SERVICES, INCLUDING THE PERFORMANCE OF THE PORTFOLIOWith assets under management of approximately $447 billion as of June 30, 2009, the Adviser has the investment experi-ence to manage and provide non-investment services (described in Section I) to the Portfolio.

The information prepared by Lipper shows the 1 and 3 year net performance rankings of the Portfolio24 relative to its LipperPerformance Group (“PG”) and Lipper Performance Universe (“PU”)25 for the periods ended April 30, 2009.26

Portfolio

PortfolioReturn

(%)

PGMedian

(%)

PUMedian

(%)PG

RankPU

Rank

Balanced Wealth Strategy Portfolio1 year �28.55 �21.92 �21.86 9/11 78/843 year �7.48 �4.37 �4.52 9/11 55/58

Set forth below are the 1, 3 year and since inception performance returns of the Portfolio (in bold)27 versus its benchmark.

Periods Ending April 30, 2009Annualized Net Performance (%)

1 Year(%)

3 Year(%)

SinceInception

(%)28

Balanced Wealth Strategy Portfolio �28.55 �7.48 �0.9260% S&P 500 Stock Index / 40% Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index �21.05 �3.99 0.22S&P 500 Stock Index �35.31 �10.76 �3.24Barclays Capital Aggregate Bond Index 3.84 6.01 4.84

Inception Date: July 1, 2004

22 The Deli study, which was based on 1997 SEC reported filings, was published in 2002 by Daniel N. Deli. The results of the studywith respect to fund size and family size were consistent with economies of scale being shared with shareholders, suggesting a com-petitive environment.

23 The two dimensional analysis showed patterns of lower advisory fees for funds with larger asset sizes and funds from larger familysizes compared to funds with smaller asset sizes and funds from smaller family sizes, which according to the independent consultantis indicative of a sharing of economies of scale and scope. However, in less liquid and active markets, such is not the case, as theempirical analysis showed potential for diseconomies of scale in those markets. The empirical analysis also showed diminishingeconomies of scale and scope as funds surpassed a certain high level of assets.

24 The performance rankings are for the Class A shares of the Portfolio. It should be noted that the performance returns of the Portfolioshown were provided by the Adviser. Lipper maintains its own database that includes the Portfolio’s performance returns. Roundingdifferences may cause the Adviser’s Portfolio returns to be one or two basis points different from Lipper’s own Portfolio returns. Tomaintain consistency, the performance returns of the Portfolio, as reported by the Adviser, are provided instead of Lipper.

25 The Portfolio’s PG is identical to the Portfolio’s EG. The Portfolio’s PU is not identical to the Portfolio’s EU as the criteria forincluding or excluding a fund in a PU is somewhat different from that of an EU.

26 Note that the current Lipper investment classification/objective dictates the PG and PU throughout the life of the fund even if a fundhad a different investment classification/objective at a different point in time.

27 The performance returns shown in the table are for the Class A shares of the Portfolio.

28 The Adviser provided Portfolio and benchmark performance return information for periods through April 30, 2009.

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CONCLUSION:Based on the factors discussed above the Senior Officer’s conclusion is that the proposed advisory fee for the Portfolio isreasonable and within the range of what would have been negotiated at arm’s-length in light of all the surrounding circum-stances. This conclusion in respect of the Portfolio is based on an evaluation of all of these factors and no single factor wasdispositive.

Dated: August 31, 2009

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