T Rowe Price Group News

After a nice rally in the opening months of the year, the stock market appears to have taken a spring vacation as worries over the situation in Europe and softer economic data here at home have weighed on investors' psyches.

They currently have a $61.00 target price on the stock. Zacks ' analyst wrote, "We are downgrading our recommendation on T. Rowe Price to Neutral from Outperform based on weaker-than expected first-quarter 2012 earnings and feeble expense management.

Hospira Inc. , Lake Forest, Ill., hired T. Rowe Price Group as record keeper for its 401 Retirement Savings Plan and two other savings plans, according to an 8-K filing with the SEC.

It's hard to become a jack of all trades, but that doesn't stop big asset managers such as Fidelity from trying.

RailAmerica Inc., the railroad operator controlled by Fortress Investment Group LLC that reached an all-time high last week, is poised to reap about 30 percent more for investors as a takeover target.

Enhanced domestic equity and passive domestic fixed income were the hardest hit traditional investment strategies in 2011, according to the latest Pensions & Investments survey of money managers.

By way of background, Parsimony Investment Research is a group of Do-It-Yourself investors that whole-heartedly believe that individuals can and should educate themselves and manage their own money.

Money managers are building their European businesses even as the sovereign debt crisis has scared away firms from making investments in the region.

T. Rowe Price is launching a new emerging-market corporate bond fund to capture the growth in these countries, but without betting on their currencies.

Vanguard Group Inc. has closed a $16.9 billion high-yield bond fund to most new investors as a surge in deposits threaten the ability of the world's biggest mutual-fund provider to effectively invest in the debt.

Vanguard Group said it was closing its $16.9 billion High-Yield Corporate Fund to most new accounts effective immediately, marking the latest junk bond manager seeking to shut off a flood of cash from investors.

Fidelity Investments and other big mutual fund families that were early backers of Facebook Inc are likely still winners despite the social network's troubled stock market debut.

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T. Rowe Price Group 's stake in Facebook Inc. more than tripled in value as the social networking giant went public on Friday.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner was interviewed by MPT's Jeff Salkin during a Greater Baltimore Committee event at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel.

Saying he hopes to sharpen the city and region's competitiveness, Brian C. Rogers, chairman and CIO of T. Rowe Price Group Inc., was named on Monday as the new chairman of the Greater Baltimore Committee.

T. Rowe Price Group, Inc. is a publicly owned asset management holding company. The firm primarily provides its services to individual and institutional investors, retirement plans, and financial intermediaries.

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Amid all the frenzy over Facebook's upcoming IPO, some of the focus has been on the retail investor and whether Joe Sixpack will have a shot at getting some exposure to the social network at its public offering price.

Jeff Sica, a financial adviser in Morristown, N.J., for months has been hearing the same request from clients and it isn't about which muni bond looks the most promising these days.