American Century Investments

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! American Century Investments is a privately-controlled and independent investment management firm that has focused on delivering superior investment performance and building client relationships for more than 50 years. Its headquarters are located at 4500 Main in Kansas City, Missouri, near the famous Country Club Plaza. The company was founded by James E. Jim Stowers, Jr. in 1958 as Twentieth Century Mutual Funds. Its 1,300 employees serve clients from offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Mountain View, California and Kansas City, Missouri. Serving investment professionals, institutions, corporations and individual investors, American Century Investments offers a variety of actively managed investment disciplines through an array of products including mutual funds, institutional separate accounts, commingled trusts, and sub-advisory accounts. In 2009, American Century Investments was named Lipper's Best Large Mutual Fund Company in the United States.