T. Rowe Price Group Inc. TROW

. Rowe Price Group, Inc., incorporated on February 4, 2000, is a financial services holding company. The Company provides global investment management services through its subsidiaries to investors across the world. The Company provides an array of Company sponsored the United States mutual funds, other sponsored pooled investment vehicles, sub advisory services, separate account management, recordkeeping, and related services to individuals, advisors, institutions, financial intermediaries and retirement plan sponsors.

The Company distributes its products in countries located within three geographical regions: North America, Europe Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and Asia Pacific (APAC). The Company accumulates its assets under management from a diversified client base across five distribution channels: the United States financial intermediaries; EMEA and APAC financial intermediaries; individual the United States investors on a direct basis; the United States retirement plan sponsors for, which it provides recordkeeping services, and institutional investors globally. As of December 31, 2016, it serviced clients in 45 countries across the world.

The Company manages a range of investment strategies in equity, fixed income, and asset allocation across sectors, styles and regions. The Company also offers specialized advisory services, including management of stable value investment contracts and a distribution management service for the disposition of equity securities its clients receive from third-party venture capital investment pools. The Company provides seed capital for new investment funds and trusts to enable the portfolio manager to begin building an investment performance history in advance of the portfolio receiving client assets. The Company provides investment advisory services through its subsidiaries to the Price Funds; clients on a separately managed or sub advised account basis; and other sponsored investment portfolios, including collective investment trusts, target date retirement trusts, funds offered to investors outside the United States, and portfolios offered through variable annuity life insurance plans in the United States.

The Company's subsidiaries, T. Rowe Price (Luxembourg) Management Sarl and T. Rowe Price International, provide management company and investment management services, respectively, to its Luxembourg-based Societe d'Investissement a Capital Variable (SICAVs) and Fonds Commun de Placement (FCPs), and the United Kingdom-based open ended investment company (OEIC). These funds are distributed outside the United States through distribution agents and other financial intermediaries. Its subsidiary, T. Rowe Price Trust Company, offers and provides investment management services to collective investment trusts for investments by qualified the Unites States retirement plans. In addition to providing investment management services to the Price Funds, its subsidiary, T. Rowe Price Associates, offers separately managed institutional investment management services and sub advised investment management to intermediaries.

The Company also provides administrative services as ancillary services to its investment advisory clients. These administrative services are provided by several of its subsidiaries and include mutual fund transfer agent, accounting, distribution, and shareholder services; participant recordkeeping and transfer agent services for defined contribution retirement plans investing in its sponsored mutual funds; recordkeeping services for defined contribution retirement plans investing in mutual funds outside the T. Rowe Price complex; brokerage, and trust services. The Company's subsidiaries provide advisory-related administrative services to the Price Funds and their shareholders. T. Rowe Price Services provides mutual fund transfer agency and shareholder services, including maintenance of staff, facilities, technology, and other equipment to respond to inquiries from fund shareholders. T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services provides participant accounting and plan administration for defined contribution retirement plans that invest in the Price Funds, its sponsored collective investment trusts, and funds outside the Price fund complex. T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services also provides transfer agent services to the Price Funds. T. Rowe Price Trust Company also provides administrative trustee services. The Company also provides non-discretionary advisory planning services to fund shareholders and investors through its subsidiary T. Rowe Price Advisory Services. These services include retirement planning services, such as saving for retirement, transitioning into retirement and income in retirement. The Company's subsidiary, T. Rowe Price Investment Services, is the principal distributor of the Price Funds.