Jason Bauer is a sector portfolio manager in the Fixed Income Division. He is responsible for high yield investments. Jason is a vice president and member of the Investment Advisory Committees for the Credit Opportunities, Floating Rate, High Yield, New Income, Total Return, and Value Funds. He also is a vice president of the Institutional Income Funds, Inc., International Funds, Inc., and Multi-Sector Account Portfolios, Inc., and an Investment Advisory Committee member for the Dynamic Credit Fund, Floating Rate Multi-Sector Account Portfolio, Institutional Floating Rate Fund, and Total Return ETF. Jason is a vice president of T. Rowe Price Group, Inc., and T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.

Jason's investment experience began in 2003, and he has been with T. Rowe Price since 2008, beginning as a high yield credit analyst in the Fixed Income Division. In 2014, he became the Global High Yield Credit Research team leader; in 2020, an associate portfolio manager; and in 2021, he assumed his current role. Prior to this, Jason was an investment analyst at Prudential Private Capital, the private credit investment arm of Prudential Financial, in Newark, New Jersey.

Jason earned a B.S., with high distinction, in finance from The Pennsylvania State University and an M.B.A., with honors, in finance and economics from Columbia University. Jason also has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation.

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