T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. is an American publicly owned global

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firm that offers

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, subadvisory services, separate account management, and retirement plans and services for individuals, institutions, and financial intermediaries. The firm has assets under management of more than $1.6 trillion and annual revenues of $6.2 billion as of 2020, placing it 447 on the ''Fortune'' 500 list of the largest U.S. companies.{{cite news, first=Lorraine, last=Mirabella, title=Hogan, officials applaud rise to Fortune 500 by Sinclair Broadcast, McCormick and T. Rowe Price at new Sinclair office, newspaper=

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, it has 5,000 employees in Baltimore and 16 international offices serving clients in 47 countries.{{cite web, url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1113169/000111316918000009/a201710k.htm, title=US SEC: Form 10-K T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., publisher=

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, access-date=March 15, 2018 The firm was founded in 1937 by

Thomas Rowe Price, Jr. Thomas Rowe Price Jr. (March 16, 1898 – October 20, 1983) was the founder of T. Rowe Price, an American publicly owned investment firm, established in 1937 and headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. The company offers mutual funds, subadvisory s ...

who is best known for developing the

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philosophy of investing. As of 2019, the company is focused on active management after strategically deciding against a major initiative in passive investment. Consistently ranked among the world's top asset managers, T. Rowe Price was named one of the best places to work in money management by Pensions&Investments and was one of Fortune's most admired companies in 2020.

Business philosophy

Thomas Rowe Price Jr. started in finance in the 1920s as an entry-level researcher and account manager at Baltimore-area

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, but disliked the operating models of sales-oriented firms at the time. When he founded T. Rowe Price & Associates in 1937, his firm diverged from the norm in three major ways: charging fees based on assets under management rather than sales volume, actively managing his clients' accounts strictly as a

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, and investing in

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instead of

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. He became well known as the "father of growth investing" and was nicknamed the "Sage of Baltimore" by ''

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''.{{Cite web, url=http://www.investopedia.com/university/greatest/thomasroweprice.asp, title=The Greatest Investors: Thomas Rowe Price, Jr. , publisher=Investopedia, date=2003-12-01, language=en-US, access-date=2016-06-23

History

1937–1986

Thomas Rowe Price, Jr. founded T. Rowe Price & Associates in Baltimore in 1937. The firm was originally headquartered at 10 Light Street and staffed by a small pool of associates, many of whom left

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's precursor, MacKubin, Legg and Co., along with Price. Initially a very small firm focused on

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, and private investment accounts for Baltimore-area families, the company struggled during the

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and

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before gaining solid footing at the end of the 1940s. By 1950, its clientele grew too large for the staff to manage accounts individually, so the firm incorporated and launched its first mutual fund, the T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund.{{cite encyclopedia, url=http://www.encyclopedia.com/social-sciences-and-law/economics-business-and-labor/businesses-and-occupations/t-rowe-price, title=T. Rowe Price Associates -- International Directory of Company Histories, encyclopedia=Encyclopedia.com, date=2006, access-date=2017-02-20 Gaining traction in Baltimore and along the U.S. eastern seaboard, the firm continued a steady expansion of clientele, staff, and geographic reach. By 1960, Price opened a second fund, named the New Horizons Fund, focused on growth investment opportunities, and especially technology firms like

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, IBM, and

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. In need of more room, the headquarters were moved in 1962 to the new One Charles Center building designed by

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nearby in downtown Baltimore. At the same time, Price began to prepare for retirement, resigning as president of the firm in 1963, delegating some responsibilities, and selling his shares in the company. Despite this, Price maintained an active presence in the firm for several years and urged the opening of the New Era Fund in 1969 as a response to the rapid

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he predicted would dominate the 1970s. In 1971, the year Price completely retired, T. Rowe Price opened its Fixed Income Division, and began to modernize and diversify its operations. In the 1970s and early 1980s, T. Rowe Price kicked off more assertive growth than before, moving to its current location at

and opening its first international office. In 1979, T. Rowe Price launched a

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with British asset manager Robert Fleming & Co. named Rowe Price-Fleming International. The venture, which managed $39 billion at its height in 2000, allowed T. Rowe Price to offer a broader range of services and expertise internationally.

1986–2010

T. Rowe Price held its

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, valued at nearly $200 million, in 1986. Shortly thereafter, the firm began establishing larger office complexes in the U.S. and research offices around the world, beginning with a Hong Kong office in 1987. Retirement Plan Services were launched in the 1990s alongside additional new services and funds, including mutual funds acquired from other companies such as

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. This momentum, and the firm reaching $100 billion assets under management, pushed T. Rowe Price to create an asset management partnership with

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and Daiwa Securities in Tokyo in 1999, and to purchase 100% interest of the London-based Rowe Price-Fleming International, which was renamed T. Rowe Price International. Also in 1999, T. Rowe Price was added to the S&P 500 Index.{{cite news, url=http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1999-10-17/business/9910160346_1_index-funds-index-effect-rowe-price , title=Baltimore's T. Rowe Price rises on Joining Index, newspaper=

, date=1999-10-17 , access-date=2017-02-21 T. Rowe Price largely avoided the

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of 2000. ''The

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'' expressed surprise at the firm's moderation with then-profitable technology stocks just a week before the markets began to crash in March 2000.{{cite news, url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB952292958756965887 , title=T. Rowe Pays High Price for Avoiding Tech Craze, newspaper=

, date=2000-03-06, access-date=2017-02-15 In 2001, the company launched T. Rowe Price Funds SICAV, domiciled in Luxembourg, for non-U.S. institutional investors and

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. Two years later it created target-date retirement funds. In 2010, T. Rowe Price bought a significant interest in

Unit Trust of India UTI Mutual Fund was carved out of the erstwhile Unit Trust of India (UTI) as a Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) registered mutual fund from 1 February 2003. The Unit Trust of India Act 1963 was repealed, paving way for the bifurcati ...

, India's oldest mutual fund company and one of its five largest. Since 2000, T. Rowe Price has opened global offices in locations ranging from Madrid and Dubai to Stockholm and Sydney.

2010–present

As of 2019, T. Rowe Price has continued to focus on

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rather than passive management.{{Cite web, url=https://www.investmentnews.com/t-rowe-price-stock-picking-franklin-resources-legg-maso-175759, title=T. Rowe Price has a $1 trillion answer to claims stock-picking is dead, date=2019-12-26, website=InvestmentNews, language=en-US, access-date=2020-03-16 In the decade from 2010 to 2020, T. Rowe Price increased its assets under management from $400 billion to $1.6 trillion and annual revenues increased 10.2 percent to $6.2 billion over 2019, placing it 447 on the

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list of the largest U.S. companies.

Awards and recognition

* 2017 Ranked one of the World's Most Admired Companies by ''

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, access-date=2017-02-21 * 2016 Top Companies for Women Technologists by the

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Leadership Index * 2015 P&I Best Places to Work in Money Management by Pension&Investments * 2015 Best Employers for Healthy Lifestyle by the National Business Group on Health

Notable people

Board of directors

* Mark S. Bartlett, Former Managing Partner of

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* Mary K. Bush, Founder, and President of Bush International LLC *

Dina Dublon Dina Dublon (born 1953) is a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and current member of the boards of directors at Microsoft, Accenture, T. Rowe Price, and PepsiCo. She also serves as a trustee of Carnegie Mellon University and on the b ...

, Former Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co. * Dr. Freeman Hrabowski III, President of

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* Robert F. MacLellan, Chairman of Northleaf Capital Partners * Rob Sharps, President, and CEO of T. Rowe Price *

Olympia Snowe Olympia Jean Snowe (; born February 21, 1947) is an American businesswoman and politician who was a United States Senator from Maine from 1995 to 2013. Snowe, a member of the Republican Party, became known for her ability to influence the outcom ...

, Former US Senator, founder of Olympia Snowe LLC *

Robert J. Stevens Robert J. Stevens (born 1951), is a retired Chairman#Public corporations, executive chairman of Lockheed Martin. He was the Chairman#Public corporations, chairman, president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Lockheed Martin from 2004 until 20 ...

, Former Chairman and CEO of

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* William Stromberg, non-executive Chairman *

Richard Verma Richard Rahul Verma (born November 27, 1968) is an Indian-American lawyer, diplomat, and executive, who served as the U.S. Ambassador to India from 2014 to 2017. Verma previously served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Legislative Affairs ...

, Former U.S. Ambassador to India, Vice Chairman and Partner of

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* Sandra S. Wijnberg, Executive Adviser at Aquiline Capital Partners LLC * Alan D. Wilson, Former President of McCormick & Company{{cite web, url=http://trow.client.shareholder.com/directors.cfm , title=T. Rowe Price Board of Directors, publisher=T. Rowe Price, access-date=2017-02-15

Others

Eddie C. Brown Eddie Carl Brown (born November 26, 1940) is an American investment manager, entrepreneur and philanthropist.“Beating the Odds: Eddie Brown’s Investing and Life Strategies,” John Wiley & Sons, 2011 Renowned for his stock-picking acumen, Bro ...

, former portfolio manager at T. Rowe Price, Founder and President of Brown Capital Management, and noted philanthropist *

Abby Joseph Cohen Abby Joseph Cohen (born February 29, 1952) is an American economist and financial analyst on Wall Street. , she continues to serve as an advisory director at Goldman Sachs, after retiring from leadership of its Global Markets Institute. Prior to ...

, former research director at T. Rowe Price, named ''Institutional Investor'''s top strategist in the late 1990s. * Roger McNamee, former manager of the T. Rowe Price Science & Technology Fund who since founded the venture capital firm Elevation Partners{{cite web, url=http://www.portfolio.com/executives/features/2007/12/16/Roger-McNamee-Profile , title=Rock Stars of Tech , publisher=

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, date=December 16, 2007, access-date=2009-09-25{{cite news, url=https://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090925-713162.html , title=Twitter Lures In An Unusual Backer , date=September 25, 2009 , newspaper=

, access-date=2009-09-25 , url-status=dead , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090928021622/http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090925-713162.html , archive-date=September 28, 2009 * Mary J. Miller, former director of the firm's Fixed Income Division who left to work for the

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, becoming

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, then

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, and finally the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury. *

Alfred Sommer Alfred (Al) Sommer (born October 2, 1942) is a prominent American ophthalmologist and epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research on vitamin A in the 1970s and 1980s revealed that dosing even mildly vitamin ...

, former board member of T. Rowe Price and noted

epidemiologist Epidemiology is the study and analysis of the distribution (who, when, and where), patterns and risk factor, determinants of health and disease conditions in a defined population. It is a cornerstone of public health, and shapes policy decision ...

at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health{{cite web, url=http://www.jhsph.edu/about/school-at-a-glance/health-advisory-board/board-members/sommer.html, title=Alfred Sommer Biography, publisher=Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, access-date=2017-02-28

References

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External links

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