Ms. Burke took on the responsibilities of chief financial officer this summer, after becoming the financial firm’s chief operations officer in July 2020. Kate Burke, CFO and COO of AllianceBernstein. Photo: AllianceBernsteinWSJ’s CFO Journal talked to Ms. Burke about her dual role, the outlook for the firm’s business and the impact of higher interest rates on markets. We are going to continue to look to the private markets, building out our alternatives, our private credit offerings. Ms. Burke: People still have pretty healthy balance sheets overall, but they’ve been impacted by inflation and so are less healthy than they were a year ago.

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