General Investing >> Money Manager Interviews >> August 16, 2004
ROBERT W. SMITH is a Vice President of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., T.
Rowe Price Associates, Inc., and T. Rowe Price International, Inc. He
is also a Portfolio Manager in the Equity Division. Mr. Smith serves as
President and Investment Advisory Committee Chairman of the Growth Stock
Fund. He is also a Vice President and Investment Advisory Committee
member of the Blue Chip Growth Fund, Global Stock Fund, International
Funds, Inc., Media & Telecommunications Fund, and New America Growth
Fund. Mr. Smith joined the firm in 1992 as a Research Analyst and has
five years of previous investment experience. He served as an
Investment Analyst for Massachusetts Financial Services for five years.
Mr. Smith earned a BS in Finance and Economics from the University of
Delaware and an MBA from the Darden Graduate School of Business,
University of Virginia. Profile
TWST: Would you begin with a brief overview of the T. Rowe Price GrowthFund?
Mr. Smith: The mutual fund is about $6.6 billion in size. It's actually
one of the older mutual funds. It was