Rob Larkins is the head of quantitative portfolio management in the Fixed Income Division. Rob is the lead portfolio manager of the firm’s suite of bond index strategies, overseeing the QM US Aggregate Bond Index Strategy, the QM US Enhanced Aggregate Bond Strategy, and numerous custom bond index mandates, including liability-driven investment portfolios tailored to meet specific client needs. He also is the lead portfolio manager of the US Long Duration Credit Strategy and a member of the Core/Core Plus Portfolio Strategy team. Rob co-manages the US Treasury Intermediate-Term Bond Index, US Treasury Long-Term Bond Index, US Inflation Protected Bond, US Short-Term Inflation Bond Index, and US Short-Term Inflation Focused Bond Strategies. Rob is the president and chairman of the Investment Advisory Committee for the QM U.S. Bond Index Fund; chairman of the Investment Advisory Committee for the QM U.S. Bond ETF, the Institutional Income Funds, and the Exchange-Traded Funds; and an Investment Advisory Committee member for the Balanced, Global Allocation, New Income, and Total Return Funds. Rob is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc., and T. Rowe Price Trust Company.

Rob’s investment experience began in 2003 when he joined T. Rowe Price, beginning as an associate portfolio manager in the Stable Value department. In 2007, he became a portfolio manager and took over management of the quantitative strategies. Prior to this, Rob was employed by Dow Chemical Company as a research engineer.

Rob earned a B.S. in chemical engineering from Brigham Young University and an M.B.A. in finance from the University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School. He also has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.

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