T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. is a financial services holding company that provides investment advisory services to individual and institutional investors in the sponsored T. Rowe Price mutual funds and other investment portfolios. The Company operates its investment advisory business through its subsidiary companies, primarily T. Rowe Price Associates, T. Rowe Price International and T. Rowe Price Global Investment Services. During the year ended December 31, 2008, the Company’s total assets under management included $196.9 billion in equity and blended asset investment portfolios and $79.4 billion in fixed income investment portfolios. The Company manages a range of United States domestic and international stock, blended asset, bond, and money market mutual funds and other investment portfolios that are designed to meet the varied and changing needs and objectives of individual and institutional investors.