Company: TROW
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001113169-25-000007
Chunk: 94

Company: PRICE T ROWE GROUP INC
Filing Date: 2025-02-14
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
Chunk 94
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Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.

OVERVIEW.

Our revenues and net income are derived primarily from investment advisory services provided to individual and institutional investors in a broad range of investment solutions across equity, fixed income, multi-asset, and alternative capabilities. We also provide certain investment advisory clients with related administrative services, including distribution, mutual fund transfer agent, accounting, and shareholder services; participant recordkeeping and transfer agent services for defined contribution retirement plans; brokerage; trust services; and non-discretionary advisory services. 

Investment advisory fees depend largely on the total value and composition of assets under our management. Accordingly, fluctuations in financial markets and in the composition of assets under management affect our revenues and results of operations. 

We incur significant expenditures to develop new products and services and improve and expand our capabilities and distribution channels in order to attract new clients and additional investments from our existing clients. These efforts often involve costs that precede any future revenues we may recognize from an increase to our assets under management.

The investment management industry has been evolving and industry participants are facing challenging trends including passive investments taking market share from traditional active strategies; continued downward fee pressure; demand for new investment vehicles to meet client needs; and an ever-changing regulatory landscape. In this regard, we have ample liquidity and resources that allow us to take advantage of attractive growth opportunities. We are investing in key capabilities, including investment professionals, distribution professionals, technologies, and new product offerings in order to provide our clients with strong investment management expertise and service. 

MARKET TRENDS.

U.S. stocks produced strong gains for the second consecutive year in 2024, and various equity indexes reached new all-time highs during the year. The equity market was buoyed by generally favorable corporate earnings and by continuing interest in companies expected to benefit from AI developments. Although inflation remained above the Federal Reserve’s long-term 2% target, the central bank shifted its focus toward the moderating labor market in the second half of the year and began reducing interest rates starting in September. In the final months of the year, equity investors generally welcomed not only looser monetary policy, but also diminished political uncertainty following U.S. elections in early November. Market volatility increased, however, as investors curtailed their expectations for short-term interest rate cuts in 2025.

Developed non-U.S. equity markets were mostly positive in 2024, helped by looser monetary policies from various central banks around the world. However, returns to