Company: TROW
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001104659-25-028002
Chunk: 8

Company: PRICE T ROWE GROUP INC
Filing Date: 2025-03-26
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 8
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 Policies We have adopted insider trading policies(Insider Trading Policies), which are contained in our Code of Ethics and Personal Transactions Policy, governing the purchase, sale, and other dispositions of our securities, including by our directors, officers, and employees. We believe the Insider Trading Policies are reasonably designed to promote compliance with applicable insider trading laws, rules, and regulations, as well as NASDAQ Global Select Market listing standards. The foregoing description of our Insider Trading Policies is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Code of

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Ethics and Personal Transactions Policy, filed as Exhibit 19 to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024, filed with the SEC on February 14, 2025. Corporate Governance Guidelines The Board represents the interests of stockholders in fostering a business that is successful in all respects. The Board is responsible for determining that the Company is managed with this objective in mind and that management is executing its responsibilities. The Board's responsibility is to regularly monitor the effectiveness of management policies and decisions, including the execution of its strategies. In addition to fulfilling its obligations for representing the interests of stockholders, the Board has responsibility to the Company's employees, the mutual funds and investment portfolios that the Company manages, the Company's other customers and business constituents and the communities where the Company operates. All are essential to a successful business. Our Corporate Governance Guidelines can be found on our website, troweprice.com. Non-employee Director Independence Determinations The Board has considered the independence of current directors and director nominees and of Dr. Hrabowski and Mr. Stromberg, who retired from the Board at the Company’s 2024 Annual Meeting, and has concluded that, excluding Messrs. Sharps, Stromberg, and August, each such person qualifies (or qualified) as an independent director within the meaning of the applicable rules of the NASDAQ Global Select Market. In making its determination of independence, the Board applied guidelines that it has adopted and concluded that the following relationships should not be considered material relationships that would impair a director’s independence:

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 where a director or an immediate family member of a director purchases or acquires investment  
 services, investment securities, or similar products and services from the Company or one      
 of its sponsored mutual funds and trusts (Price funds) so long as the relationship is on       
 terms consistent with those generally available to other persons doing business with the       
 Company, its