Use Your Analytics Background for a Career in Investments

Undergraduate and Graduate students!  Join us for a workshop with Chris Brown of T. Rowe Price. He will be highlighting the Fixed Income team within the firm’s Investments Business Unit, and provide insight into how to apply your analytical and quantitative skillset within the investment management industry, which is increasingly driven by data analytics.

This is a great opportunity for those with any quantitative background such as math, computer science, engineering, and financial economics to obtain an inside look into this industry.

Presenter Background:

Christopher Brown is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., and T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. He is also a portfolio manager in the Fixed Income Division at T. Rowe Price. Mr. Brown is the head of the Securitized Products team, the co-portfolio manager of the Total Return Strategy, and a member of the portfolio strategy team for U.S. taxable bond strategies. 

Mr. Brown has 17 years of investment experience, 12 of which have been with T. Rowe Price. Before assuming his current role, Mr. Brown was an associate portfolio manager on the U.S. Taxable Bond team and a portfolio investment strategist on the Fixed Income Quantitative team. Prior to joining T. Rowe Price in 2005, he was a fixed income analyst and trader at Riggs Investment Advisors, Inc., in Washington, D.C. Before this, he was an investment analyst for Cambridge Associates LLC in Arlington, Virginia.

Mr. Brown earned a B.A. in economics from Washington & Lee University and an M.B.A. from the University of Maryland, Robert H. Smith School of Business. He also has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.