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T. Rowe Price

T. Rowe Price () is a publicly owned Investment firm, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. It was founded in 1937 by Thomas Rowe Price, Jr..

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Big Outflow Shows Turning Point In Appetite For Junk Bonds

Individual investors' love affair with junk bonds appears to be on the rocks.

High-yield bond funds saw their fourth-largest redemptions on record in the latest week, professional investors have increasingly bearish positions on some of the funds and plans for new bond sales have been pulled.The net outflow of $2.46 billion from high-yield mutual funds and exchange-traded funds contributed to the first weekly outflow for the entire taxable bond fund universe since mid-December, according to Thomson Reuters-owned Lipper.It was also the biggest weekly withdrawal from junk-bond funds since August--despite being only the third outflow in the last 25 weeks, a stretch that saw $25.8 billion flow into the funds.That is a marked shift in sentiment from earlier in the year, when a rally driven by optimism over Europe lifted all boats--even scrap in the junkyard--making high-yield bonds a magnet for investors' cash."Lately, a combination of pressures from Europe and questions about growth global...

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  1. Five Lessons an Allowance Can Teach

    The decision whether to grant your children an allowance -- and how much it should be -- is strictly personal. But if you do choose to give your kids money on a regu...

  2. Why Bother With Target-Date Funds?

    If you are invested in a target-date retirement fund, wealth manager Leonard Raskin has a little message for you: It's time to reconsider.As far as he's concerned, t...

  3. Growing Numbers Work Into Retirement

    Kathy Frederick always assumed she would retire from her hospital administration job when she was around 60.But as that date neared, she realized she wasn't ready. S...

  4. When to Start Tapping Social Security

    Unless you're exceptionally wealthy, your biggest financial risk in retirement is outliving your money. Experts agree the best defense is your Social Security benefi...

  5. How Safe Is Your Cash?

    This is a post from staff writer Robert Brokamp of The Motley Fool . Robert is a Certified Financial Planner and the adviser for The Motley Fool's Rule Your Retireme...

  6. Seven Things You Didn't Know About 529 Plans

    What You Must Know About 529 PlansOne of the most popular college savings vehicles -- with good reason -- is the 529 plan.Offering federal and, in some cases, state ...

  7. A Sobering Look at Facebook

    It's the year's hottest initial public offering, but some wealth managers find themselves having a hard time recommending Facebook to their clients.The world's bigge...

  8. T Rowe Price 4Q Net Slips 1.7%; Net Inflows Of $1.1 Billion

    T. Rowe Price Group Inc.'s (TROW) fourth-quarter profit slipped 1.7% on a modestly higher tax bill and expenses, a bump that failed to overshadow the massive money m...

  9. T Rowe Price 4Q Net Slips 1.7% On Higher Expenses; Posts Net Inflows $1.1 Billion

    DOW JONES NEWSWIREST. Rowe Price Group Inc.'s (TROW) fourth-quarter profit slipped 1.7% as higher costs and modest increases in spending masked better-than-expected ...

  10. A Protocol for the Newly Unemployed to Weather the Storm

    Two of my friends lost their jobs in the last month. One had worked for a large computer services company for 31 years. Another was an information technology manager...

  11. The Benefits of Retiring One Step at a Time

    Older Americans increasingly are working well into their 60s or 70s to better prepare for retirement. Some take a phased retirement approach, working fewer hours or ...

  12. Stronger Growth Ahead for U.S. Economy?

    T . Rowe Price Chief Economist Alan Levenson on the outlook for the U.S. and European economies.

  1. T Rowe Price Launches Emerging-Market Corporate Bond Fund

    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.The T. Rowe Pr...

  2. Buy & Hold or Buy & Hope

    As a result of Wall Street propaganda and doublespeak, the investing public is at a huge disadvantage when navigating the markets. From sea to shining sea, broker de...

  3. T Rowe Price 1Q Profit Up 1.5%; Revenue Exceeds Expectations

    DOW JONES NEWSWIREST. Rowe Price Group Inc.'s (TROW) first-quarter profit edged up 1.5% as an increase in advisory fees helped the massive money manager post revenue...

  4. Countdown to Retirement

    Usually, when people talk about someone "going through a stage" they are talking about a 2-year-old or a teen. But there's another age at which people go through a k...

  5. Generation Lost? Millennials Come of Age

    Annabel Adams has seen a lot in her life: 9-11, the dot-com bust, the housing collapse, the financial crisis, the Great Recession.That may sound like a lifetime of e...

  6. Money and Puberty: Equally Difficult Topics for Parents?

    Is money really as difficult to discuss with children as the facts of life?A new study by T. Rowe Price suggests that many parents have trouble talking to their kids...

  7. Quiz: Are You a Good Financial Role Model?

    For better or worse, your kids have likely noticed the way you handle your money.A 2011 University of Arizona study revealed that parental influence has a 50% greate...

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