Prospectus

TBD

July 29, 2011

T. Rowe Price

Floating Rate Fund

A fund that seeks high current income and, secondarily, capital appreciation through investments in floating rate loans and debt securities.

SUBJECT TO COMPLETION

Information contained herein is subject to completion or amendment. A Registration Statement relating to these securities has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These securities may not be sold nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the Registration Statement becomes effective. This Prospectus shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state in which such offer, solicitation, or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state.

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has not approved or disapproved these securities or passed upon the adequacy of this prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

Table of Contents

1	Summary	Mutual fund shares are not deposits or obligations of, or guaranteed by, any depository institution. Shares are not insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Federal Reserve, or any other government agency, and are subject to investment risks, including possible loss of the principal amount invested.
	Floating Rate Fund             1
2	Information About Accounts in T. Rowe Price Funds
	Pricing Shares and Receiving Sale Proceeds     6 Useful Information on Distributions and Taxes  11 Transaction Procedures and Special Requirements                              17 Account Maintenance and Small Account Fees     21
3	More About the Fund
	Organization and Management   23 More Information About the Fund and Its Investment Risks              25 Investment Policies and Practices       31 Disclosure of Fund Portfolio Information       43
4	Investing with T. Rowe Price
	Account Requirements and Transaction Information                              45 Opening a New Account         46 Purchasing Additional Shares  49 Exchanging and Redeeming Shares 51 Rights Reserved by the Funds  54 Information About Your Services 55 T. Rowe Price Brokerage       54 Investment Information        55 T. Rowe Price Privacy Policy  57

Investment Objective

The fund seeks high current income and, secondarily, capital appreciation.

Fees and Expenses

This table describes the fees and expenses that you may pay if you buy and hold shares of the fund.

Fees and Expenses of the Fund

Shareholder fees (fees paid directly from your investment)
Maximum sales charge (load) imposed on purchases	NONE
Maximum deferred sales charge (load)	NONE
Redemption fee (as a percentage of amount redeemed on shares held for 90 days or less)	2.00%
Maximum account fee	$20a
Annual fund operating expenses (expenses that you pay each year as a percentage of the value of your investment)
Management fees	0.60%
Distribution and service (12b-1) fees	0.00%
Other expenses	TBD%b
Total annual fund operating expenses	TBD%
Fee waiver/expense reimbursement	TBD%c
Total annual fund operating expenses after fee waiver/expense reimbursement	0.85%c

a Subject to certain exceptions, accounts with a balance of less than $10,000 are charged an annual $20 fee.

b Other expenses are estimated.

c T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. has agreed (through October 1, 2013) to waive its fees and/or bear any expenses (excluding interest, taxes, brokerage, extraordinary expenses, and acquired fund fees) that would cause the fund’s ratio of expenses to average net assets to exceed 0.85%. Termination of the agreement would require approval by the fund’s Board of Directors. Fees waived and expenses paid under this agreement  are subject to reimbursement to T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. by the fund whenever the fund’s expense ratio is below 0.85%. However, no reimbursement will be made more than three years after the waiver or payment, or if it would result in the expense ratio exceeding 0.85%. 

Example  This example is intended to help you compare the cost of investing in the fund with the cost of investing in other mutual funds. The example assumes that you invest $10,000 in the fund for the time periods indicated and then redeem all of your shares at the end of those periods. The example also assumes that your investment has a 5% return each year, the fund’s operating expenses remain the same, and the expense limitation currently in place is not renewed. Although your actual costs may be higher or lower, based on these assumptions your costs would be:

SUMMARY

1year	3 years
$TBD	$TBD

Portfolio Turnover  The fund pays transaction costs, such as commissions, when it buys and sells securities (or “turns over” its portfolio). A higher portfolio turnover rate may indicate higher transaction costs and may result in higher taxes when fund shares are held in a taxable account. These costs, which are not reflected in annual fund operating expenses or in the example, affect the fund’s performance.

Investments, Risks, and Performance

Principal Investment Strategies  The fund will normally invest at least 80% of its net assets (including any borrowings for investment purposes) in floating rate loans and floating rate debt securities.

Floating rate loans represent amounts borrowed by companies or other entities from banks and other lenders. In many cases, they are issued in connection with recapitalizations, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and refinancings. Most, if not all, of the loans in which the fund invests will have a below investment-grade credit rating or not be rated by a major credit rating agency. The loans in which the fund invests are often referred to as “leveraged loans” because the borrowing companies have significantly more debt than equity.

The loans held by the fund may be senior or subordinate obligations of the borrower, although the fund normally invests the majority of its assets in senior floating rate loans. In the event of bankruptcy, holders of senior floating rate loans are typically paid (to the extent assets are available) before certain other creditors of the borrower (e.g., bondholders and stockholders). Holders of subordinate loans may be paid after more senior bondholders. Loans may or may not be secured by collateral. There is no limit on the fund’s investments in unsecured loans or in companies involved in bankruptcy proceedings, reorganizations, or financial restructurings.

Floating rate loans have interest rates that reset periodically (typically quarterly or monthly). The interest rates on floating rate loans are generally based on a percentage above LIBOR (the London interbank offered rate), a U.S. bank’s prime or base rate, the overnight federal funds rate, or another rate. Floating rate loans may be structured and administered by a financial institution that acts as the agent of the lenders participating in the floating rate loan. The fund may acquire floating rate loans directly from a lender or through the agent, as an assignment from another lender who holds a floating rate loan, or as a participation interest in another lender’s floating rate loan or portion thereof.

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In buying and selling loans, the fund relies on its fundamental analysis of each company and the company’s ability to pay principal and interest in light of its current financial condition, its industry position, and economic and market conditions. The fund may purchase other floating rate debt instruments with credit and interest rate characteristics similar to the floating rate loans that it purchases.

The fund may also invest up to 20% of its net assets in fixed rate debt securities, including short-term government and commercial debt obligations, investment-grade corporate bonds, mortgage- and asset-backed securities, and high yield corporate bonds, often called “junk” bonds. High yield bonds are rated below investment grade (BB and lower) and should be considered speculative. They generally provide high income in an effort to compensate investors for their higher risk of default, which is the failure to make required interest or principal payments. High yield bond issuers include small or relatively new companies lacking the history or capital to merit investment-grade status, former blue chip companies downgraded because of financial problems, companies electing to borrow heavily to finance or avoid a takeover or buyout, and firms with heavy debt loads.

The fund has considerable flexibility in seeking higher yields. There are no maturity restrictions, so the fund can purchase longer-term loans and bonds, which tend to have higher yields (but are more volatile) than shorter-term loans and bonds. However, the fund’s weighted average maturity generally is expected to be in the 4- to 8-year range, although it may be above or below that range depending on market conditions.

While most assets will be invested in U.S. floating rate loans and debt securities, the fund may also invest in foreign securities in keeping with the fund’s objective.

The fund may sell holdings for a variety of reasons, such as to adjust the portfolio’s average maturity or credit quality, to shift assets into and out of higher-yielding loans or securities, or to reduce unwanted loans or securities.

Principal Risks  As with any mutual fund, there is no guarantee that the fund will achieve its objective. The fund’s share price fluctuates, which means you could lose money by investing in the fund. The fund is exposed to interest rate risk like more traditional bond funds, but credit and liquidity risks tend to be more important. The principal risks of investing in this fund are summarized as follows:

Credit risk  This is the risk that a loan borrower or issuer of a debt security could suffer an adverse change in financial condition that results in a payment default or inability to meet a financial obligation, or the downgrade of a fund holding. The fund’s overall credit risk is increased to the extent it invests in loans not secured by collateral or if it purchases a participation interest in a loan.

Because a significant portion of the fund’s investments may be rated below investment-grade, the fund is exposed to greater volatility than if it invested mainly in investment-grade bonds and loans. High yield bond and loan issuers are more likely to suffer an adverse change in financial condition that would result in the inability to meet a financial obligation. Accordingly, securities and loans involving such companies issue carry a higher risk of default and should be considered speculative.

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Impairment of collateral risk  This is the risk that the value of collateral securing a floating rate loan could decline, be insufficient to satisfy the loan obligation, or be difficult to liquidate. The fund’s access to the collateral could be limited by bankruptcy or by the type of loan it purchases. As a result, a collateralized senior loan may not be fully collateralized and can decline significantly in value.

Interest rate risk  This is the risk that a rise in interest rates will cause the price of a fixed rate debt security to fall. Generally, the longer the maturity of a fixed rate bond, the greater its interest rate risk. Because interest payments on the fund’s floating rate investments are typically based on a spread over another interest rate, falling interest rates will result in less income for the fund, but will not typically result in the price volatility that a fixed rate holding could experience.

Prepayment risk  This is the risk that the principal on a loan will be prepaid prior to its maturity, reducing the potential for price gains. The rate of prepayments tends to increase as interest rates fall.

Liquidity risk  This is the risk that a fund may not be able to sell a security in a timely manner at a desired price. Floating rate loans often have contractual restrictions on resale, which can delay the sale and adversely impact the sale price.

Senior loans risk  Senior loans are subject to the risk that a court could subordinate a senior loan, which typically holds the most senior position in the issuer’s capital structure, to presently existing or future indebtedness or take other action detrimental to the holders of senior loans.

Foreign investing risk  This is the risk that the fund’s investments in foreign securities may be adversely affected by political and economic conditions overseas, reduced liquidity, or decreases in foreign currency values relative to the U.S. dollar.

Performance  Because the fund commenced operations in 2011, there is no historical performance information shown here. Performance history will be presented after the fund has been in operation for one full calendar year.

Updated performance information is available through troweprice.com or may be obtained by calling 1-800-225-5132.

Management

Investment Adviser  T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. (T. Rowe Price)

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Portfolio Manager	Title	Managed Fund Since	Joined Investment  Adviser
Justin J. Gerbereux	Co-Chairman of Investment Advisory Committee	2011	2003
Paul M. Massaro	Co-Chairman of Investment Advisory Committee	2011	2003

Purchase and Sale of Fund Shares

The fund’s investment minimums generally are as follows (if you hold shares through a financial intermediary, the intermediary may impose different investment minimums):

Type of Account	Minimum initial purchase	Minimum subsequent purchase
Individual retirement accounts, small business retirement plan accounts, Uniform Gifts to Minors Act or Uniform Transfers to Minors Act accounts, and Education Savings accounts	$1,000	$100
All other accounts	2,500	100

You may purchase, redeem, or exchange shares of the fund on any day the New York Stock Exchange is open for business by accessing your account online at troweprice.com, by calling 1-800-225-5132, or by written request. If you hold shares through a financial intermediary, you must purchase, redeem, and exchange shares through your intermediary.

Tax Information

The fund declares dividends daily and pays them on the first business day of each month. Distributions by the fund, whether or not you reinvest these amounts in additional fund shares, may be taxed as ordinary income or capital gains unless you invest through an individual retirement account, 401(k) plan, or other tax-deferred account. A redemption or exchange of fund shares may be taxable unless the fund shares are held in a tax-deferred account.

Payments to Broker-Dealers and Other Financial Intermediaries

If you purchase shares of the fund through a broker-dealer or other financial intermediary, the fund and its related companies may pay the intermediary for the performance of administrative services. These payments may create a conflict of interest by influencing the broker-dealer or other intermediary and your salesperson to recommend the fund over another investment. Ask your salesperson or visit your financial intermediary’s website for more information on these payments.

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As a T. Rowe Price shareholder, you will want to know about the following policies and procedures that apply to the T. Rowe Price family of stock, bond, and money funds.

Pricing Shares and Receiving Sale Proceeds

How and When Shares Are Priced

The share price (also called “net asset value”) for all funds is calculated at the close of the New York Stock Exchange, normally 4 p.m. ET, each day that the exchange is open for business. To calculate the net asset value, the fund’s assets are valued and totaled, liabilities are subtracted, and the balance, called net assets, is divided by the number of shares outstanding. Market values are used to price stocks and bonds. Market values represent the prices at which securities actually trade or evaluations based on the judgment of the fund’s pricing services. If a market value for a security is not available, the fund will make a good faith effort to assign a fair value to the security by taking into account factors that have been approved by the fund’s Board of Directors/Trustees. This value may differ from the value the fund receives upon sale of the securities. Amortized cost is used to price securities held by money funds and certain other debt securities held by a fund. Investments in mutual funds are valued at the closing net asset value per share of the mutual fund on the day of valuation.

Non-U.S. equity securities are valued on the basis of their most recent closing market prices at 4 p.m. ET except under the circumstances described below. Most foreign markets close before 4 p.m. ET. For securities primarily traded in the Far East, for example, the most recent closing prices may be as much as 15 hours old at 4 p.m. ET. If a fund determines that developments between the close of a foreign market and 4 p.m. ET will, in its judgment, materially affect the value of some or all of the fund’s securities, the fund will adjust the previous closing prices to reflect what it believes to be the fair value of the securities as of 4 p.m. ET. In deciding whether to make these adjustments, the fund reviews a variety of factors, including developments in foreign markets, the performance of U.S. securities markets, and the performance of instruments trading in U.S. markets that represent foreign securities and baskets of foreign securities. The fund may also fair value securities in other situations, for example, when a particular foreign market is closed but the fund is open. The fund uses outside pricing services to provide it with closing market prices and information used for adjusting those prices. The fund cannot predict how often it will use closing prices and how often it will adjust those prices. As a means of evaluating its fair value process, the fund routinely compares closing market prices, the next day’s opening prices in the same markets, and adjusted prices. Other mutual funds may adjust the prices of their securities by different amounts.

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The various ways you can buy, sell, and exchange shares are explained at the end of this prospectus and on the New Account Form. These procedures may differ for institutional and employer-sponsored retirement accounts or if you hold your account through an intermediary.

How Your Purchase, Sale, or Exchange Price Is Determined

If your request is received by T. Rowe Price in correct form by 4 p.m. ET, your transaction will be priced at that business day’s net asset value. If we receive it after 4 p.m. ET, it will be priced at the next business day’s net asset value.

The funds generally do not accept orders that request a particular day or price for a transaction or any other special conditions.

Fund shares may be purchased through various third-party intermediaries including banks, brokers, and investment advisers. Where authorized by a fund, orders will be priced at the net asset value next computed after receipt by the intermediary. Contact your intermediary for trade deadlines and the applicable policies for purchasing, selling, or exchanging your shares, as well as initial and subsequent investment minimums. The intermediary may charge a fee for its services.

When authorized by the fund, certain financial institutions or retirement plans purchasing fund shares on behalf of customers or plan participants through Financial Institution Services or Retirement Plan Services may place a purchase order unaccompanied by payment. Payment for these shares must be received by the time designated by the fund (not to exceed the period established for settlement under applicable regulations). If payment is not received by this time, the order may be canceled. The financial institution or retirement plan is responsible for any costs or losses incurred by the fund or T. Rowe Price if payment is delayed or not received.

Note: The time at which transactions and shares are priced and the time until which orders are accepted may be changed in case of an emergency or if the New York Stock Exchange closes at a time other than 4 p.m. ET. There may be times when you are unable to contact us by telephone or access your account online due to extreme market activity, the unavailability of the T. Rowe Price website, or other circumstances. Should this occur, your order must still be placed and accepted prior to the time the New York Stock Exchange closes to be priced at that business day’s net asset value.

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How You Can Receive the Proceeds From a Sale

When filling out the New Account Form, you may wish to give yourself the widest range of options for receiving proceeds from a sale.

If your request is received by T. Rowe Price by 4 p.m. ET (on a business day) in correct form, proceeds are usually sent on the next business day. Proceeds can be sent to you by mail or to your bank account by Automated Clearing House transfer or bank wire. Automated Clearing House is an automated method of initiating payments from, and receiving payments in, your financial institution account. Proceeds sent by Automated Clearing House transfer are usually credited the second business day after the sale. Proceeds sent by bank wire should be credited to your account the first business day after the sale.

Exception  Under certain circumstances and when deemed to be in a fund’s best interest, your proceeds may not be sent for up to seven calendar days after we receive your redemption request. Under certain limited circumstances, the Board of Directors/Trustees of a money fund may elect to suspend redemptions and postpone payment of redemption proceeds in order to facilitate an orderly liquidation of the money fund.

If for some reason we cannot accept your request to sell shares, we will contact you.

Contingent Redemption Fee

Short-term trading can disrupt a fund’s investment program and create additional costs for long-term shareholders. For these reasons, certain T. Rowe Price funds, listed in the following table, assess a fee on redemptions (including exchanges), which reduces the proceeds from such redemptions by the amounts indicated:

T. Rowe Price Funds With Redemption Fees
Fund	Redemption fee	Holding period
Africa & Middle East	2%	90 days or less
Diversified Small-Cap Growth	1%	90 days or less
Emerging Europe & Mediterranean	2%	90 days or less
Emerging Markets Bond	2%	90 days or less
Emerging Markets Local Currency Bond	2%	90 days or less
Emerging Markets Stock	2%	90 days or less
Equity Index 500	0.5%	90 days or less
European Stock	2%	90 days or less
Extended Equity Market Index	0.5%	90 days or less
Floating Rate	2%	90 days or less
Global Infrastructure	2%	90 days or less
Global Large-Cap Stock	2%	90 days or less
Global Real Estate	2%	90 days or less
Global Stock	2%	90 days or less
High Yield	1%	90 days or less
International Bond	2%	90 days or less
International Discovery	2%	90 days or less
International Equity Index	2%	90 days or less
International Growth & Income	2%	90 days or less
International Stock	2%	90 days or less
Japan	2%	90 days or less
Latin America	2%	90 days or less
New Asia	2%	90 days or less
Overseas Stock	2%	90 days or less
Real Assets	2%	90 days or less
Real Estate	1%	90 days or less
Small-Cap Value	1%	90 days or less
Spectrum International	2%	90 days or less
Tax-Efficient Equity	1%	less than 365 days
Total Equity Market Index	0.5%	90 days or less
U.S. Bond Index	0.5%	90 days or less

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Redemption fees are paid to a fund to deter short-term trading, offset costs, and protect the fund’s long-term shareholders. Subject to the exceptions described on the following pages, all persons holding shares of a T. Rowe Price fund that imposes a redemption fee are subject to the fee, whether the person is holding shares directly with a T. Rowe Price fund, through a retirement plan for which T. Rowe Price serves as recordkeeper, or indirectly through an intermediary, such as a broker, bank, investment adviser, recordkeeper for retirement plan participants, or any other third party.

Computation of Holding Period

When an investor sells shares of a fund that assesses a redemption fee, T. Rowe Price will use the “first-in, first-out” method to determine the holding period for the shares sold. Under this method, the date of redemption or exchange will be compared with the earliest purchase date of shares held in the account. The day after the date of your purchase is considered Day 1 for purposes of computing the holding period. For a fund with a 365-day holding period, a redemption fee will be charged on shares sold before  the end of the required holding period. For funds with a 90-day holding period, a redemption fee will be charged on shares sold on or before the end of the required holding period. For example, if you redeem your shares on or before the 90th day from the date of purchase, you will be assessed the redemption fee. If you purchase shares through an intermediary, consult your intermediary to determine how the holding period will be applied.

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Transactions Not Subject to Redemption Fees

The T. Rowe Price funds will not assess a redemption fee with respect to certain transactions. As of the date of this prospectus, the following shares of T. Rowe Price funds will not be subject to redemption fees:

1.    Shares redeemed via an automated, systematic withdrawal plan;

2.    Shares redeemed through or used to establish certain rebalancing or asset allocation programs or fund-of-funds products, if approved in writing by T. Rowe Price;

3.    Shares purchased by the reinvestment of dividends or capital gain distributions;*

4.    Shares converted from one share class to another share class of the same fund;*

5.    Shares redeemed by a fund (e.g., for failure to meet account minimums or to cover various fees, such as fiduciary fees);

6.    Shares purchased by rollover and changes of account registration within the same fund;*

7.    Shares redeemed to return an excess contribution in an individual retirement account;

8.    Shares of T. Rowe Price funds purchased by certain other T. Rowe Price funds or accounts managed by T. Rowe Price (please note that other shareholders of the T. Rowe Price fund are still subject to the policy);

9.    Shares that are redeemed in-kind;

10.  Shares transferred to T. Rowe Price or a third-party intermediary acting as a service provider when the age of the shares cannot be determined systematically;* and

11.  Shares redeemed in retirement plans or other products that restrict trading to no more frequently than once per quarter, if approved in writing by T. Rowe Price.

* Subsequent exchanges of these shares into funds that assess redemption fees will subject such shares to the fee.

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Redemption Fees on Shares Held in Retirement Plans

If shares are held in a retirement plan, redemption fees will generally be assessed on shares redeemed by exchange only if they were originally purchased by exchange. However, redemption fees may apply to transactions other than exchanges depending on how shares of the plan are held at T. Rowe Price or how the fees are applied by your plan’s recordkeeper. To determine which of your transactions are subject to redemption fees, you should contact T. Rowe Price or your plan recordkeeper.

Omnibus Accounts

If your shares are held through an intermediary in an omnibus account, T. Rowe Price relies on the intermediary to assess the redemption fee on underlying shareholder accounts. T. Rowe Price seeks to identify intermediaries establishing omnibus accounts and to enter into agreements requiring the intermediary to assess the redemption fees. There are no assurances that T. Rowe Price will be successful in identifying all intermediaries or that the intermediaries will properly assess the fees.

Certain intermediaries may not apply the exemptions previously listed to the redemption fee policy; all redemptions by persons trading through such intermediaries may be subject to the fee. Certain intermediaries may exempt transactions not listed from redemption fees, if approved by T. Rowe Price. Persons redeeming shares through an intermediary should check with their respective intermediary to determine which transactions are subject to the fees.

Useful Information on Distributions and Taxes

To the extent possible, all net investment income and realized capital gains are distributed to shareholders.

Dividends and Other Distributions

Dividend and capital gain distributions are reinvested in additional fund shares in your account unless you select another option on your New Account Form. Reinvesting distributions results in compounding, that is, receiving income dividends and capital gain distributions on a rising number of shares.

Distributions not reinvested are paid by check or transmitted to your bank account via Automated Clearing House. If the U.S. Post Office cannot deliver your check, or if your check remains uncashed for six months, the fund reserves the right to reinvest your distribution check in your account at the net asset value on the day of the reinvestment and to reinvest all subsequent distributions in shares of the fund. Interest will not accrue on amounts represented by uncashed distributions or redemption checks.

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The following table provides details on dividend payments:

Dividend Payment Schedule
Fund	Dividends
Money funds	·Purchases received by T. Rowe Price by noon ET via wire begin to earn dividends on that day. Other shares normally begin to earn dividends on the business day after payment is received by T. Rowe Price. ·Declared daily and paid on the first business day of each month.
Bond funds	·Shares normally begin to earn dividends on the business day after payment is received by T. Rowe Price. ·Declared daily and paid on the first business day of each month.
These stock funds only: ·Balanced ·Dividend Growth ·Equity Income ·Equity Index 500 ·Global Real Estate ·Growth & Income ·Personal Strategy Balanced ·Personal Strategy Income ·Real Estate	·Declared and paid quarterly, if any, in March, June, September, and December. ·Must be a shareholder on the dividend record date.
Retirement and Spectrum Funds:
·Retirement Income and Spectrum Income	·Shares normally begin to earn dividends on the business day after payment is received by T. Rowe Price. ·Declared daily and paid on the first business day of each month.
·All others	·Declared and paid annually, if any, generally in December. ·Must be a shareholder on the dividend record date.
Other stock funds	·Declared and paid annually, if any, generally in December. ·Must be a shareholder on the dividend record date.

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Bond or money fund shares will earn dividends through the date of redemption. Shares redeemed on a Friday or prior to a holiday (other than wire redemptions for money funds received before noon ET) will continue to earn dividends until the next business day. Generally, if you redeem all of your bond or money fund shares at any time during the month, you will also receive all dividends earned through the date of redemption in the same check. When you redeem only a portion of your bond or money fund shares, all dividends accrued on those shares will be reinvested, or paid in cash, on the next dividend payment date.

If you purchase and sell your shares through an intermediary, consult your intermediary to determine when your shares begin and stop accruing dividends; the information previously described may vary.

Capital Gain Payments

If a fund has net capital gains for the year (after subtracting any capital losses), they are usually declared and paid in December to shareholders of record on a specified date that month. If a second distribution is necessary, it is paid the following year.

Capital gain payments are not expected from money funds, which are managed to maintain a constant share price.

A capital gain or loss is the difference between the purchase and sale price of a security.

Tax Information

You will be sent information for your tax filing needs no later than mid-February.

If you invest in the fund through a tax-deferred account, such as an individual retirement account, you will not be subject to tax on dividends and distributions from the fund or the sale of fund shares if those amounts remain in the tax-deferred account. You may receive a Form 1099-R or other Internal Revenue Service forms, as applicable, if any portion of the account is distributed to you.

If you invest in the fund through a taxable account, you will generally be subject to tax when:

·You sell fund shares, including an exchange from one fund to another.

·The fund makes a distribution to your account.

Additional information about the taxation of dividends for certain T. Rowe Price funds is listed below:

Tax-Free and Municipal Funds

·Regular monthly dividends (including those from the state-specific tax-free funds) are expected to be exempt from federal income taxes.

·Exemption is not guaranteed, since the fund has the right under certain conditions to invest in nonexempt securities.

·A fund may invest in Build America Bonds authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, as well as other qualified tax credit bonds. Investments in these bonds will result in taxable interest income, although the federal income tax on such interest income may be fully or partially offset by the specified tax credits that are available to the bondholders. A fund may elect to pass through to the shareholders taxable interest income and any corresponding tax credits. Any available tax credits—which are also included in federal taxable income—can generally be used to offset federal regular income tax and alternative minimum tax, but those tax credits are generally not refundable.

·Tax-exempt dividends paid to Social Security recipients may increase the portion of benefits that is subject to tax.

·For state-specific funds, the monthly dividends you receive are expected to be exempt from state and local income tax of that particular state. For other funds, a small portion of your income dividend may be exempt from state and local income taxes.

·If a fund invests in certain “private activity” bonds that are not exempt from alternative minimum tax, shareholders who are subject to the alternative minimum tax must include income generated by those bonds in their alternative minimum tax calculation. Private activity bonds issued in 2009 and 2010, and refunding bonds issued in 2009 and 2010 to refund private activity bonds that were issued from the beginning of 2004 to the end of 2008, are exempt from alternative minimum tax. The portion of a fund’s income dividend that should be included in your alternative minimum tax calculation, if any, will be reported to you in January on Form 1099-INT. 

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For individual shareholders, a portion of ordinary dividends representing “qualified dividend income” received by the fund may be subject to tax at the lower rate applicable to long-term capital gains, rather than ordinary income. You may report it as “qualified dividend income” in computing your taxes provided you have held the fund shares on which the dividend was paid for more than 60 days during the
121-day period beginning 60 days before the ex-dividend date. Ordinary dividends that do not qualify for this lower rate are generally taxable at the investor’s marginal income tax rate. This includes the portion of ordinary dividends derived from interest, short-term capital gains, distributions from nonqualified foreign corporations, and dividends received by the fund from stocks that were on loan. Little, if any, of the ordinary dividends paid by the Global Real Estate Fund, Real Estate Fund, or the bond and money funds is expected to qualify for this lower rate.

For corporate shareholders, a portion of ordinary dividends may be eligible for the 70% deduction for dividends received by corporations to the extent the fund’s income consists of dividends paid by U.S. corporations. Little, if any, of the ordinary dividends paid by the international funds or the bond and money funds is expected to qualify for this deduction.

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Beginning in 2013, a 3.8 percent Medicare contribution tax will be imposed on net investment income, including interest, dividends, and capital gains, of U.S. individuals with income exceeding $200,000 (or $250,000 if married filing jointly), and of estates and trusts.

Taxes on Fund Redemptions

When you sell shares in any fund, you may realize a gain or loss. An exchange from one fund to another is also a sale for tax purposes.

We will send you Form 1099-B, if applicable, no later than mid-February indicating the date and amount of each sale you made in the fund during the prior year. This information will also be reported to the Internal Revenue Service. For most new accounts or those opened by exchange in 1984 or later, we will provide you with the gain or loss on the shares you sold during the year based on the average cost single category method. You may calculate the cost basis using other methods acceptable to the Internal Revenue Service, such as specific identification.

For mutual fund shares acquired after 2011, new tax regulations require us to
report the cost basis information to you and the Internal Revenue Service on
Form 1099-B using a cost basis method selected by you or, in the absence of such selected method, our default method. You should, however, note that the cost basis information reported to you may not always be the same as what you should report on your tax return because the rules applicable to the determination of cost basis on Form 1099-B may be different from the rules applicable to the determination of cost basis for reporting on your tax return. Therefore, you should save your transaction records to make sure the information reported on your tax return is accurate. To help you maintain accurate records, we will send you a confirmation promptly following each transaction you make (except for systematic purchases and systematic redemptions) and a year-end statement detailing all of your transactions in each fund account during the year.

Taxes on Fund Distributions

We will send you, as applicable, no later than mid-February, a Form 1099-DIV, Form 1099-INT, or other Internal Revenue Service forms, as required, indicating the tax status of any income dividends, dividends exempt from federal income taxes, and capital gain distributions made to you. This information will be reported to the Internal Revenue Service. Taxable distributions are generally taxable to you in the year in which they are paid. Your bond or money fund dividends for each calendar year will include dividends accrued up to the first business day of the next calendar year. You will be sent any additional information you need to determine your taxes on fund distributions, such as the portion of your dividends, if any, that may be exempt from state and local income taxes. Dividends from tax-free funds are generally expected to be tax-exempt.

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The tax treatment of a capital gain distribution is determined by how long the fund held the portfolio securities, not how long you held the shares in the fund. Short-term (one year or less) capital gain distributions are taxable at the same rate as ordinary income, and gains on securities held more than one year are taxed at the lower rates applicable to long-term capital gains. If you realized a loss on the sale or exchange of fund shares that you held six months or less, your short-term capital loss must be reclassified as a long-term capital loss to the extent of any long-term capital gain distributions received during the period you held the shares. If you realized a loss on the sale or exchange of fund shares held six months or less, your capital loss is reduced by the tax-exempt dividends, if any, received on those shares. This reduction, however, does not apply to fund shares acquired after December 22, 2010, if the fund declares tax-exempt dividends on a daily basis in an amount equal to at least 90% of its net tax-exempt interest and distributes such dividends at least monthly. For funds investing in foreign securities, distributions resulting from the sale of certain foreign currencies, currency contracts, and the foreign currency portion of gains on debt securities are taxed as ordinary income. Net foreign currency losses may cause monthly or quarterly dividends to be reclassified as a return of capital.

If the fund qualifies and elects to pass through nonrefundable foreign income taxes paid to foreign governments during the year, your portion of such taxes will be reported to you as taxable income. However, you may be able to claim an offsetting credit or deduction on your tax return for those amounts. There can be no assurance that a fund will meet the requirements to pass through foreign income taxes paid.

Taxable distributions are subject to tax whether reinvested in additional shares or received in cash.

If a fund invests in Build America Bonds, authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, or other qualified tax credit bonds and elects to pass through the corresponding interest income and any available tax credits, you will need to report both the interest income and any such tax credits as taxable income. You may be able to claim the tax credits on your federal tax return as an offset to your income tax (including alternative minimum tax) liability, but the tax credits are generally not refundable. There is no assurance, however, that a fund will elect to pass through the income and credits.

The following table provides additional details on distributions for certain funds:

Taxes on Fund Distributions

Tax-Free and Municipal Funds

·Gains realized on the sale of market discount bonds with maturities beyond one year may be treated as ordinary income and cannot be offset by other capital losses.

·Payments received or gains realized on certain derivative transactions may result in taxable ordinary income or capital gain.

·To the extent the fund makes such investments, the likelihood of a taxable distribution will be increased.

Inflation Protected Bond Fund

·Inflation adjustments on Treasury inflation protected securities exceeding deflation adjustments for the year will be distributed to you as a short-term capital gain resulting in ordinary income.

·In computing the distribution amount, the fund cannot reduce inflation adjustments by short- or long-term capital losses from the sales of securities.

·Net deflation adjustments for a year may result in all or a portion of dividends paid earlier in the year being treated as a return of capital.   

Retirement and Spectrum Funds

·Distributions by the underlying funds and changes in asset allocations may result in taxable distributions of ordinary income or capital gains.

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Tax Consequences of Hedging

Entering into certain options, futures, swaps, and forward foreign exchange contracts and transactions may result in the application of the mark-to-market and straddle provisions of the Internal Revenue Code. These provisions could result in a fund being required to distribute gains on such transactions even though it did not close the contracts during the year or receive cash to pay such distributions. The fund may not be able to reduce its distributions for losses on such transactions to the extent of unrealized gains in offsetting positions.

Tax Effect of Buying Shares Before an Income Dividend or Capital Gain Distribution

If you buy shares shortly before or on the “record date”—the date that establishes you as the person to receive the upcoming distribution—you may receive a portion of the money you just invested in the form of a taxable distribution. Therefore, you may wish to find out a fund’s record date before investing. Of course, a fund’s share price may, at any time, reflect undistributed capital gains or income and unrealized appreciation, which may result in future taxable distributions. Such distributions can occur even in a year when the fund has a negative return.

Transaction Procedures and Special Requirements

Following these procedures helps assure timely and accurate transactions.

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Purchase Conditions

Nonpayment  If you pay with a check or Automated Clearing House transfer that does not clear or if your payment is not received in a timely manner, your purchase may be canceled. You will be responsible for any losses or expenses incurred by the fund or transfer agent, and the fund can redeem shares you own in this or another identically registered T. Rowe Price account as reimbursement. The fund and its agents have the right to reject or cancel any purchase, exchange, or redemption due to nonpayment.

U.S. Dollars  All purchases must be paid for in U.S. dollars; checks must be drawn on U.S. banks.

Sale (Redemption) Conditions

Holds on Immediate Redemptions: 10-day Hold  If you sell shares that you just purchased and paid for by check or Automated Clearing House transfer, the fund will process your redemption but will generally delay sending you the proceeds for up to 10 calendar days to allow the check or transfer to clear. If, during the clearing period, we receive a check drawn against your newly purchased shares, it will be returned marked “uncollected.” (The 10-day hold does not apply to purchases paid for by bank wire or automatic purchases through your paycheck.)

Telephone and Online Account Transactions  You may access your account and conduct transactions using the telephone or the T. Rowe Price website. The T. Rowe Price funds and their agents use reasonable procedures to verify the identity of the shareholder. If these procedures are followed, the funds and their agents are not liable for any losses that may occur from acting on unauthorized instructions. A confirmation is sent promptly after a transaction. Please review it carefully and contact T. Rowe Price immediately about any transaction you believe to be unauthorized. Telephone conversations are recorded.

Large Redemptions  Large redemptions can adversely affect a portfolio manager’s ability to implement a fund’s investment strategy by causing the premature sale of securities that would otherwise be held longer. Therefore, the fund reserves the right (without prior notice) to pay all or part of redemption proceeds with securities from the fund’s portfolio rather than in cash (“redemption in-kind”). If this occurs, the securities will be selected by the fund in its absolute discretion and the redeeming shareholder or account will be responsible for disposing of the securities and bearing any associated costs.

Excessive and Short-Term Trading Policies

Excessive transactions and short-term trading can be harmful to fund shareholders in various ways, such as disrupting a fund’s portfolio management strategies, increasing a fund’s trading costs, and negatively affecting its performance. Short-term traders in funds that invest in foreign securities may seek to take advantage of developments overseas that could lead to an anticipated difference between the price of the funds’ shares and price movements in foreign markets. While there is no assurance that T. Rowe Price can prevent all excessive and short-term trading, the Boards of Directors/Trustees of the T. Rowe Price funds have adopted the following trading limits that are designed to deter such activity and protect the funds’ shareholders.

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Subject to certain exceptions, each T. Rowe Price fund restricts a shareholder’s purchases (including through exchanges) into a fund account for a period of 30 calendar days after the shareholder has redeemed or exchanged out of that same fund account (the “30-Day Purchase Block”). The calendar day after the date of redemption is considered Day 1 for purposes of computing the period before another purchase may be made.

General Exceptions  The following types of transactions generally are exempt from the 30-Day Purchase Block:

·Shares purchased or redeemed in money market funds;

·Shares purchased or redeemed through a systematic purchase or withdrawal plan;

·Checkwriting redemptions from bond and money funds;

·Shares purchased through the reinvestment of dividends or capital gain distributions;

·Shares redeemed by the fund to pay fund fees or shareholder account fees;

·Transfers and changes of account registration within the same fund;

·Shares purchased by asset transfer or direct rollover;

·Shares purchased or redeemed through IRA conversions and recharacterizations;

·Transactions in Section 529 college savings plans;

·Shares converted from one share class to another share class in the same fund; and

·Shares of T. Rowe Price funds that are purchased by another T. Rowe Price fund, including shares purchased by T. Rowe Price fund-of-fund products, and shares purchased by discretionary accounts managed by T. Rowe Price or one of its affiliates (please note that shareholders of the T. Rowe Price fund-of-funds or other investing T. Rowe Price fund are still subject to the policy).

Transactions in certain rebalancing, asset allocation, and wrap programs and other advisory programs, as well as non-T. Rowe Price fund-of-funds products, may also be exempt from the 30-Day Purchase Block, subject to prior written approval by T. Rowe Price.

In addition to the 30-Day Purchase Block, T. Rowe Price may, in its discretion, reject any purchase or exchange into a fund from a person deemed to be a short-term or excessive trader or whose trading activity could disrupt the management of the fund or dilute the value of the fund’s shares, including trading by persons acting collectively (e.g., following the advice of a newsletter). Such persons may be barred from further purchases of T. Rowe Price funds for a period longer than 30 calendar days or permanently.

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Intermediary Accounts  Intermediaries may maintain their underlying accounts directly with the fund, although they often establish an omnibus account (one account with the fund that represents multiple underlying client accounts) on behalf of their customers. When intermediaries establish omnibus accounts in the T. Rowe Price funds, T. Rowe Price is not able to monitor the trading activity of the underlying shareholders. However, T. Rowe Price monitors aggregate trading activity at the intermediary (omnibus account) level in an attempt to identify activity that indicates potential excessive or short-term trading. If it detects suspicious trading activity, T. Rowe Price contacts the intermediary and may request personal identifying information and transaction histories for some or all underlying shareholders (including plan participants, if applicable). If T. Rowe Price believes that excessive or short-term trading has occurred, it will instruct the intermediary to impose restrictions to discourage such practices and take appropriate action with respect to the underlying shareholder, including restricting purchases for 30 calendar days or longer. There is no assurance that T. Rowe Price will be able to properly enforce its excessive trading policies for omnibus accounts. Because T. Rowe Price generally relies on intermediaries to provide information and impose restrictions for omnibus accounts, its ability to monitor and deter excessive trading will be dependent upon the intermediaries’ timely performance of their responsibilities.

T. Rowe Price may allow an intermediary or other third party to maintain restrictions on trading in the T. Rowe Price funds that differ from the 30-Day Purchase Block. An alternative excessive trading policy would be acceptable to T. Rowe Price if it believes that the policy would provide sufficient protection to the T. Rowe Price funds and their shareholders that is consistent with the excessive trading policy adopted by the funds’ Boards of Directors/Trustees.

If you invest in T. Rowe Price funds through an intermediary, you should review that firm’s materials carefully or consult with the intermediary to determine the excessive trading policy that applies to your trades in the funds and any other rules or conditions on transactions that may apply.

Retirement Plan Accounts  If shares are held in a retirement plan, generally the 30-Day Purchase Block applies only to shares that are redeemed by exchange to another fund. However, the 30-Day Purchase Block may apply to transactions other than exchanges depending on how shares of the plan are held at T. Rowe Price or the excessive trading policy that is applied by your plan’s recordkeeper. An alternative excessive trading policy may apply to the T. Rowe Price funds where a retirement plan has an excessive trading policy deemed acceptable to T. Rowe Price. You should contact T. Rowe Price or your plan recordkeeper to determine which of your transactions are subject to the fund’s 30-Day Purchase Block.

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There is no guarantee that T. Rowe Price will be able to identify or prevent all excessive or short-term trades or trading practices.

Keeping Your Account Open

Due to the relatively high cost to a fund of maintaining small accounts, we ask you to maintain an account balance of at least $1,000 ($10,000 for Summit Funds). If, for any reason, your balance is below this amount for three months or longer, we have the right to redeem your account at the then-current net asset value after giving you 60 days to increase your balance. This could result in a taxable gain.

Signature Guarantees

A signature guarantee is designed to protect you and the T. Rowe Price funds from fraud by verifying your signature.

You may need to have your signature guaranteed in certain situations, such as:

·Written requests: (1) to redeem over $100,000; or (2) to wire redemption proceeds when prior bank account authorization is not on file.

·Remitting redemption proceeds to any person, address, or bank account not on record.

·Transferring redemption proceeds to a T. Rowe Price fund account with a different registration (name or ownership) from yours.

·Establishing certain services after the account is opened.

The signature guarantee must be obtained from a financial institution that is a participant in a Medallion Signature Guarantee program. You can obtain a Medallion Signature Guarantee from most banks, savings institutions, broker-dealers, and other guarantors acceptable to T. Rowe Price. When obtaining a Medallion Signature Guarantee, please discuss with the guarantor the dollar amount of your proposed transaction. It is important that the level of coverage provided by the guarantor’s stamp covers the dollar amount of the transaction or it may be rejected. We cannot accept guarantees from notaries public or organizations that do not provide reimbursement in the case of fraud.

Account SERVICE FEE

In an effort to help offset the disproportionately high costs incurred by the funds in connection with servicing lower balance accounts, an annual $20 account service fee (paid to T. Rowe Price Services, Inc., or one of its affiliates) is charged to certain fund accounts with a balance below $10,000. The determination of whether a fund account is subject to the account service fee is based on account balances and services selected for accounts as of the last business day of August. The fee will be charged to an account with a balance below $10,000 for any reason, including market fluctuation and recent redemptions. The fee, which is automatically deducted from an account by redeeming fund shares, is typically charged to accounts in early September each calendar year.

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The account service fee generally does not apply to fund accounts that are held through an intermediary, participant accounts in employer-sponsored retirement plans for which T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services provides recordkeeping services, or money funds that are used as a T. Rowe Price Brokerage sweep account. Regardless of a particular fund account’s balance on the last business day of August, the account service fee is automatically waived for accounts that satisfy the following conditions.

·Any accounts for which the shareholder has elected to receive electronic delivery of all of the following:  account statements, transaction confirmations, prospectuses, and shareholder reports;

·Any accounts of a shareholder with at least $50,000 in total assets with T. Rowe Price (for this purpose, total assets includes investments in T. Rowe Price mutual funds, except for those held through a retirement plan for which T. Rowe Price Retirement Plan Services provides recordkeeping services; T. Rowe Price Brokerage; and T. Rowe Price Variable Annuities); and

·Any accounts of a shareholder who is a T. Rowe Price Preferred Services, Personal Services, or Enhanced Personal Services client (enrollment in these programs generally requires T. Rowe Price assets of at least $100,000 – visit troweprice.com or call 1-800-537-1098 for more information). 

T. Rowe Price reserves the right to authorize additional waivers for other types of accounts or to modify the conditions for assessment of the account service fee. Fund shares held in a T. Rowe Price individual retirement account, Education Savings Account, or small business retirement plan account (including certain 403(b) plan accounts) are subject to the account service fee and may be subject to additional administrative fees when distributing all fund shares from such accounts.

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Organization and Management

How is the fund organized?

The fund was incorporated in Maryland in 2011 and is an “open-end management investment company,” or mutual fund. Mutual funds pool money received from shareholders and invest it to try to achieve specified objectives.

Shareholders benefit from T. Rowe Price’s 74 years of investment management experience.

What is meant by “shares”?

As with all mutual funds, investors purchase shares when they put money in a fund. These shares are part of a fund’s authorized capital stock, but share certificates are not issued.

Each share and fractional share entitles the shareholder to:

·Receive a proportional interest in income and capital gain distributions.

·Cast one vote per share on certain fund matters, including the election of fund directors/trustees, changes in fundamental policies, or approval of changes in the fund’s management contract.

Do T. Rowe Price funds have annual shareholder meetings?

The funds are not required to hold annual meetings and, to avoid unnecessary costs to fund shareholders, do not do so except when certain matters, such as a change in fundamental policies, must be decided. In addition, shareholders representing at least 10% of all eligible votes may call a special meeting for the purpose of voting on the removal of any fund director or trustee. If a meeting is held and you cannot attend, you can vote by proxy. Before the meeting, the fund will send or make available to you proxy materials that explain the issues to be decided and include instructions on voting by mail or telephone or on the Internet.

Who runs the fund?

General Oversight

The fund is governed by a Board of Directors that meets regularly to review fund investments, performance, expenses, and other business affairs. The Board elects the fund’s officers. At least 75% of Board members are independent of T. Rowe Price.

All decisions regarding the purchase and sale of fund investments are made by T. Rowe Price – specifically by the fund’s portfolio managers.

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Investment Adviser

T. Rowe Price is the fund’s investment adviser and oversees the selection of the fund’s investments and management of the fund’s portfolio. T. Rowe Price is a SEC-registered investment adviser that provides investment management services to individual and institutional investors, and sponsors and serves as adviser and sub-adviser to registered investment companies, institutional separate accounts, and common trust funds. The address for T. Rowe Price is 100 East Pratt Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21202. As of March 31, 2011, T. Rowe Price and its affiliates (the “Firm”) managed approximately $509 billion for more than 11 million individual and institutional investor accounts.

Portfolio Management

T. Rowe Price has established an Investment Advisory Committee with respect to the fund. The committee chairmen have day-to-day responsibility for managing the fund’s portfolio and work with the committee in developing and executing the fund’s investment program. The members of the committee are as follows: Justin T. Gerbereux and Paul M. Massaro, Co-chairmen, Brian E. Burns, Michael F. Connelly, Stephen M. Finamore, Paul A. Karpers, Michael J. McGonigle, Brian A. Rubin, Walter P. Stuart III, Thomas E. Tewksbury, Mark J. Vaselkiv, and Thea N. Williams. The following information describes the chairmen’s experience during the past five years and provides the year that the chairmen first joined the Firm. Mr. Gerbereux and Mr. Massaro have been co-chairmen of the committee since the fund’s inception in 2011. Mr. Gerbereux joined T. Rowe Price in 2003 and his investment experience dates from 1999. During the past five years, he has served as an investment analyst and then a portfolio manger (beginning in 2009). Mr. Massaro joined T. Rowe Price in 2003 and his investment experience dates from 2000. During the past five years, he has served as an investment analyst and then a portfolio manger (beginning in 2009). The Statement of Additional Information provides additional information about the portfolio managers’ compensation, other accounts managed by the portfolio managers, and the portfolio managers’ ownership of fund shares.

The Management Fee

This fee has two parts–an “individual fund fee,” which reflects a fund’s particular characteristics, and a “group fee.” The group fee, which is designed to reflect the benefits of the shared resources of the T. Rowe Price investment management complex, is calculated daily based on the combined net assets of all T. Rowe Price funds (except the Spectrum Funds, Retirement Funds, TRP Reserve Investment Funds, and any index or private label mutual funds). The group fee schedule (in the following table) is graduated, declining as the asset total rises, so shareholders benefit from the overall growth in mutual fund assets.

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Group Fee Schedule

0.334%*	First $50 billion
0.305%	Next $30 billion
0.300%	Next $40 billion
0.295%	Next $40 billion
0.290%	Next $60 billion
0.285%	Next $80 billion
0.280%	Thereafter

* Represents a blended group fee rate containing various breakpoints.

The fund’s group fee is determined by applying the group fee rate to the fund’s average daily net assets. On December 31, 2010, the annual group fee rate was 0.30%. The individual fund fee, also applied to the fund’s average daily net assets, is 0.30%.

The expenses shown in the fee table in Section 1 are generally based on a fund’s prior fiscal year. In periods of market volatility, assets may decline significantly, causing total annual fund operating expenses to become higher than the numbers shown in the fee table.

A discussion about the factors considered by the Board and its conclusions in approving the fund’s investment management contract with T. Rowe Price will appear in the fund’s annual report to shareholders for the period ended May 31.

MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE FUND AND ITS INVESTMENT RISKS

The fund could generate higher income than higher quality bond funds and could have greater potential for capital appreciation. Because the loan and high yield bond markets can be more sensitive to changes in economic growth than interest rates, the fund may outperform high-quality bond funds when the outlook for the economy is positive.

The fund’s yield will vary. A fund’s yield is the annualized dividends earned for a given period (typically 30 days for bond funds), divided by the share price at the end of the period. A fund’s total return includes distributions from income and capital gains and the change in share price for a given period.

Credit quality refers to the expected ability of the borrower of a loan, or the issuer of a bond, to make all required interest and principal payments on time. Because highly-rated borrowers and issuers represent less risk, they can borrow at lower interest rates than less-creditworthy issuers. Therefore, a fund investing in high-quality securities should have a lower yield than an otherwise comparable fund investing in lower-quality securities.

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Bonds and loans have a stated maturity date when their entire principal value must be repaid to the investor. However, many loans are prepayable at par at the borrower’s discretion and many bonds are “callable,” meaning their principal can be repaid before the stated maturity date. Fixed rate bonds are most likely to be called when interest rates are falling because the issuer can refinance at a lower rate, just as a homeowner refinances a mortgage when interest rates fall. In that environment, a bond’s “effective maturity” is usually its nearest call date. For example, the rate at which homeowners pay down their mortgage principal determines the effective maturity of mortgage-backed bonds.

A bond fund has no real maturity, but it does have a weighted average maturity and a weighted average effective maturity. Each of these numbers is an average of the stated or effective maturities of the underlying loans and bonds, with each holding’s maturity “weighted” by the percentage of fund assets it represents. (The fund’s average effective maturity is calculated by reference to the call dates or coupon reset dates of its fixed rate holdings and by reference to the stated maturity dates of its floating rate holdings.) Some funds utilize effective maturities rather than stated maturities when managing a fund to a certain average maturity, which provides additional flexibility in portfolio management.

Duration is a calculation that seeks to measure the price sensitivity of a bond or a bond fund to changes in interest rates. It is expressed in years, like maturity, but it is a better indicator of price sensitivity than maturity because it takes into account the time value of cash flows generated over the bond’s life. For the fund’s fixed rate holdings, future interest and principal payments are discounted to reflect their present value and then multiplied by the number of years they will be received to produce a value expressed in years–the duration. The duration for the fund’s investments in floating rate loans and securities should be zero because price sensitivity to changes in interest rates is minimal. “Effective” duration takes into account call features and sinking fund payments that may shorten a bond’s life.

Duration measures only sensitivity to interest rate change—the dominant source of risk for high-quality bond funds. It does not reflect risk from other sources, such as bond defaults. Therefore, duration may not be as significant an indicator of overall risk for a fund such as this one that invests mostly in noninvestment-grade loans and debt securities.

Related Performance Information

The following information shows historical total returns for the Floating Rate Bank Loan Composite. The composite is not a mutual fund. Rather, it is a collection of all the portfolios managed by T. Rowe Price that have investment objectives, policies, and strategies that are substantially similar to those of the T. Rowe Price Floating Rate Fund.

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The performance information is historical and should not be considered predictive of the fund’s future results.

Certain portfolios that comprise the composite may not be mutual funds and thus will not be subject to the diversification requirements and other restrictions and investment limitations imposed on the T. Rowe Price Floating Rate Fund by the 1940 Act or the Code which, if applicable, may have adversely affected the performance results.

As of March 31, 2011, there was one portfolio in the composite.

The following table shows return figures for the composite net of expenses of 0.85%, which is the expected expense ratio of the fund. Because the expense ratio of the fund is higher than the expense ratio of the portfolio comprising the composite, the performance shown is lower than the actual returns of the composite.

Prior Performance of Similar Portfolios Managed by T. Rowe Price

A
		Periods ended December 31, 2010
	Returns before taxes	1 Year		3 Years		Since inception (2/29/08)
Floating Rate Bank Loan*
	Average Annual	8.28	%	8.21	%	8.07	%
	Cumulative	8.82		8.75		8.61
S&P/LSTA Performing Loan Index
	Average Annual	8.03		8.96		8.68
	Cumulative	8.03		29.36		29.28

* These figures reflect the prior performance of a similarly managed portfolio but the returns have been adjusted to assume the portfolio had a net expense ratio of 0.85%.

The fund has certain risks that are similar to traditional bond funds, but other unique risks because it invests primarily in loans. The fund is subject to the following principal risks:

Credit risk  This is the risk that the perceived creditworthiness of a fund holding deteriorates, or any of the fund’s holdings has its credit rating downgraded or defaults (fails to make scheduled interest or principal payments), potentially reducing the fund’s income level and share price. Credit risk for the fund depends largely on the financial health of the companies whose loans or debt securities are held by the fund. In general, lower-rated loans and bonds have higher credit risks.

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The loans and debt securities held by the fund typically will be noninvestment-grade. These investments are usually considered speculative and involve a greater risk of default and price decline due to deterioration in the credit quality of the company or issuer. The companies in which the fund invests are not as strong financially as those with higher credit ratings and are more vulnerable to financial setbacks and recession than more creditworthy companies, which may impair their ability to make interest and principal payments. Therefore, the credit risk for the fund’s portfolio increases when the U.S. economy slows or enters a recession.

The fund’s credit risk will increase if it invests in loans that are not secured by collateral. Further, even if the fund’s claim on a loan is senior when it first invests in the loan, the claim may be subordinated or diluted at the time the fund makes a claim. Senior loans are subject to the risk that a court could subordinate a senior loan, which typically holds the most senior position in the issuer’s capital structure, to presently existing or future indebtedness or take other action detrimental to the holders of senior loans.

When the fund purchases a loan as an assignment, it will be subject to the credit risk of the borrower. When the fund purchases a loan as a participation interest, it does not have any direct claim on the loan or any rights of set-off against the borrower. As a result, the fund will be subject not only to credit risk of the borrower but also to the credit risk of the lender or participant who sold the participation interest to the fund. In the event of the insolvency of the lender selling a participation, the fund may be treated as a general creditor of the lender and may not benefit from any set-off between the lender and the borrower.

Impairment of collateral risk  The terms of the floating rate loans held by the fund may require that the borrowing company maintain collateral to support payment of its obligations. However, the value of the collateral securing a floating rate loan can decline or be insufficient to meet the obligations of the company. In addition, collateral securing a loan may be found invalid, may be used to pay other outstanding obligations of the borrower, or may be difficult to liquidate. The fund’s access to the collateral may be limited by bankruptcy, other insolvency laws, or by the type of loan the fund has purchased. For example, if the fund purchases a participation instead of an assignment, it would not have direct access to collateral of the borrower. As a result, a floating rate loan may not be fully collateralized and can decline significantly in value.

Interest rate risk  This is the risk that a rise in interest rates usually accompanies a decline in bond prices. Longer-maturity fixed rate bonds typically decline more than those with shorter maturities. If the fund purchases fixed rate bonds and interest rates rise, the fund’s share price could decline. Because interest payments on the fund’s floating rate investments are typically based on a spread over another interest rate, declining interest rates will generally result in the fund receiving less interest income. Floating rate loans and securities should have lower interest rate risk but holdings with longer reset periods may be more vulnerable to interest rate and price volatility.

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Prepayment risk  Many types of debt securities, including floating rate loans, are subject to prepayment risk. Prepayment risk occurs when the issuer of a security can repay principal prior to the security’s maturity. Securities subject to prepayment risk can offer less potential for gains when the credit quality of the issuer improves. Senior loans are subject to heightened prepayment risk, as they usually have mandatory and optional prepayment provisions.

Liquidity risk  This is the risk that a fund may not be able to sell loans or securities in a timely manner at a desired price. Sectors of the bond and loan markets can experience sudden downturns in trading activity. Loans and securities with reduced liquidity involve greater risk than securities with more liquid markets.

Floating rate loans often have contractual restrictions on resale. These restrictions can delay or impede the fund’s ability to sell loans and may adversely affect the price that can be obtained.

The loans and securities in which the fund invests are less liquid than securities traded on national exchanges. The secondary market for loans may be subject to irregular trading activity and extended settlement periods, and the liquidity of individual floating rate loans can vary significantly over time. For example, if the credit quality of a floating rate loan unexpectedly declines significantly, secondary market trading in that floating rate loan can also decline. During periods of infrequent trading, valuing a floating rate loan can be more difficult and buying or selling a floating rate loan at an acceptable price may not be possible or may be delayed. A delay in selling a floating rate loan or security can result in a loss and cause the fund’s price to decline.

Other risks  Unlike registered securities, such as certain stocks and bonds, loans are not registered or regulated under the federal securities laws. As a result, investors in loans have less protection against fraud and other improper practices than investors in registered securities.

The entire noninvestment-grade loan and bond market can experience sudden and sharp price swings due to a variety of factors, including changes in economic forecasts, stock market activity, large sustained sales by major investors, a high-profile default, or a change in the market’s psychology. This type of volatility is usually associated more with stocks than bonds, but leveraged loan and junk bond investors should be prepared for it.

Foreign investing risk  To the extent a fund holds foreign securities, it will be subject to special risks, whether the securities are denominated in U.S. dollars or foreign currencies. These risks include potentially adverse political and economic conditions overseas, greater volatility, lower liquidity, and the possibility that foreign currencies will decline against the dollar, lowering the value of securities denominated in those currencies and possibly a fund’s share price.

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Efforts to reduce risk  Consistent with the fund’s objective, the portfolio managers use various tools to try to reduce risk, including:

·Rigorous credit research and fundamental analysis by T. Rowe Price’s analysts;

·Diversification of assets to limit the fund’s exposure to any one industry or issuer;

·Variations in the amount of assets invested in various types of securities;

·Purchasing floating rate loans that trade (or are expected to trade) on a secondary market; and

·Holding a senior position in a company’s capital structure.

While most assets will be invested in floating rate loans and bonds, the fund may employ other strategies that are not considered part of the fund’s principal investment strategies. For instance, the fund may invest, to a limited extent, in futures and swaps. Any investments in futures would typically serve as an efficient means of gaining exposure to certain markets or adjusting the fund’s interest rate exposure, or as a tool to manage cash flows into and out of the fund and maintain liquidity while being invested in the market. Any investments in swaps would typically serve to manage the fund’s exposure to changes in interest rates or credit quality, or to protect the value of certain portfolio holdings. To the extent the fund invests in futures and swaps, it could be exposed to potential volatility and losses in excess of the fund’s initial investment, and the risk that changes in interest rate movements or the creditworthiness of an issuer will not be accurately predicted.

The use of derivatives, if any, exposes the fund to risks that are different from, and potentially greater than, investments in more traditional securities. Changes in the value of a derivative may not properly correlate with changes in the value of the underlying asset, reference rate or index, and may not move in the direction anticipated by the portfolio manager. Derivatives can also be illiquid and difficult to value, the fund could be exposed to significant losses if a counterparty becomes insolvent or is unable to meet its obligations under the contract, and there is the possibility that limitations or trading restrictions may be imposed by an exchange or government regulation.

Recent legislation calls for a new regulatory framework for the derivatives markets. The extent and impact of new regulations are not yet known and may not be known for some time. New regulations may make the use of derivatives by funds more costly, may limit the availability of certain types of derivatives, and may otherwise adversely affect the value or performance of derivatives used by funds.

The Statement of Additional Information contains more detailed information about the fund and its investments, operations, and expenses.

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Investment Policies and Practices

This section takes a detailed look at some of the types of fund securities and the various kinds of investment practices that may be used in day-to-day portfolio management. Fund investments are subject to further restrictions and risks described in the Statement of Additional Information.

Shareholder approval is required to substantively change fund objectives. Shareholder approval is also required to change certain investment restrictions noted in the following section as “fundamental policies.” Portfolio managers also follow certain “operating policies” that can be changed without shareholder approval. Shareholders will receive at least 60 days’ prior notice of any change in policy requiring the fund to normally invest at least 80% of net assets in floating rate loans and debt securities.

Fund holdings of certain kinds of investments cannot exceed maximum percentages of total assets, which are set forth in this prospectus. For instance, fund investments in certain derivatives are limited to 10% of total assets. While these restrictions provide a useful level of detail about fund investments, investors should not view them as an accurate gauge of the potential risk of such investments. For example, in a given period, a 5% investment in derivatives could have significantly more of an impact on a fund’s share price than its weighting in the portfolio. The net effect of a particular investment depends on its volatility and the size of its overall return in relation to the performance of all other fund investments.

Certain investment restrictions, such as a required minimum or maximum investment in a particular type of security, are measured at the time a fund purchases a security. The status, market value, maturity, credit quality, or other characteristics of a fund’s securities may change after they are purchased, and this may cause the amount of a fund’s assets invested in such securities to exceed the stated maximum restriction or fall below the stated minimum restriction. If any of these changes occur, it would not be considered a violation of the investment restriction and will not require the sale of an investment if it was proper at the time it was made (this exception does not apply to a fund’s borrowing policy). However, purchases by a fund during the time it is above or below the stated percentage restriction would be made in compliance with applicable restrictions.

Changes in fund holdings, fund performance, and the contribution of various investments are discussed in the shareholder reports.

Portfolio managers have considerable discretion in choosing investment strategies and selecting securities they believe will help achieve fund objectives.

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Types of Portfolio Securities

In seeking to meet its investment objective, fund investments may be made in any type of security or instrument (including certain potentially high-risk derivatives described in this section) whose investment characteristics are consistent with its investment program. The following pages describe various types of fund securities and investment management practices.

Diversification  As a fundamental policy, the fund will not purchase a security if, as a result, with respect to 75% of its total assets, more than 5% of the fund’s total assets would be invested in securities of a single issuer or more than 10% of the outstanding voting securities of the issuer would be held by the fund.

Floating Rate Loans and Debt Securities, Loan Participations and Assignments

Floating rate loans and debt securities have interest rates that reset periodically. Floating rate loans include term loans, delayed draw term loans, bridge loans, and synthetic (or funded) letters of credit. Floating rate debt securities include variable rate bonds and notes.

Floating rate loans may be senior or subordinated obligations of the borrower and may be secured or unsecured by collateral of the borrower. Senior floating rate loans have a claim on the assets of the borrower that is senior to certain other creditors of the borrower. The proceeds of floating rate loans are used by the borrower for a variety of purposes, including financing leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations, mergers, acquisitions, stock repurchases, dividends, and to finance internal growth. The fund invests in loans where a company is in uncertain financial condition, where the borrower has defaulted in the payment of interest or principal or performance of its covenants or agreements, or is involved in bankruptcy proceedings, reorganizations, or financial restructurings.

A term loan is a loan that has a specified repayment schedule. A delayed draw loan is a special feature in a term loan that permits the borrower to withdraw predetermined portions of the total amount borrowed at certain times. A bridge loan is a short-term loan arrangement typically made by a borrower in anticipation of longer-term permanent financing. Most bridge loans are structured so that their interest rates rise the longer the loans remain outstanding. A letter of credit is a guarantee by a bank that the borrower’s payment to the lender will be received on time and for the correct amount. If the fund enters into a commitment with a borrower regarding a delayed draw term loan or bridge loan, the fund will be obligated on one or more dates in the future to lend the borrower monies (up to an aggregate stated amount) if called upon to do so by the borrower.

Floating rate loans may be acquired directly through an agent acting on behalf of the lenders participating in the loan, as an assignment from another lender who holds a direct interest in the loan, or as a participation interest in another lender’s portion of the loan. The fund expects to purchase the majority of its loans via assignment, which usually means the fund will have direct contractual rights against the borrower. An assignment typically results in the purchaser succeeding to all rights and obligations under the loan agreement between the assigning lender and the borrower. However, assignments may be arranged through private negotiations, and the rights and obligations acquired by the purchaser of an assignment may differ from, and be more limited than, those held by the assigning lender.

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The fund may invest in loans by purchasing a participation interest. A participation interest is a fractional interest in a loan, issued by a lender or other financial institution. To the extent the fund invests in loans through participation interests, it will be more difficult for the fund to enforce its rights against the borrower because the fund will have established a direct contractual relationship with the seller of the participation interest but not with the borrower. When the fund invests in a loan by participation, it must rely on another party not only for the enforcement of its rights against the borrower, but also for the receipt and processing of payments due under the loan. Investing in a participation agreement may also limit the fund’s right to vote on certain matters in connection with the loan, such as changes to the underlying loan agreement. Where the fund is a participant in a loan, it would be a creditor of the lender and not eligible to file a claim directly as a creditor in the event of the borrower’s bankruptcy.

The fund may make investments in a company through the purchase or execution of a privately negotiated note representing the equivalent of a loan. Larger loans to corporations or governments, including governments of less developed countries, may be shared or syndicated among several lenders, usually banks. The fund could participate in such syndicates or could buy part of a loan, becoming a direct lender. These loans may often be obligations of companies or governments in financial distress or in default.

There is no organized exchange or board of trade on which loans are traded. Instead, the secondary market for loans is an unregulated inter-dealer or inter-bank resale market. Market quotations for a particular loan may vary over time, and if the credit quality of a loan unexpectedly declines, secondary trading of that loan may decline for a period of time. In general, a secondary market may be subject to irregular trading activity, wide bid/ask spreads and extended trade settlement periods, which may impair the fund’s ability to realize full value and thus cause a significant decline in the fund’s net asset value.

Loans in which the fund invests may require the consent of the borrower and/or the agent prior to sale or assignment. These consent requirements can delay or impede the fund’s ability to sell loans and may adversely affect the price that can be obtained.

Operating policy  There is no limit to the amount of the fund’s investments in floating rate loans or floating rate debt securities of any type.

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Bonds

A bond is an interest-bearing security. The issuer has a contractual obligation to pay interest at a stated rate on specific dates and to repay principal (the bond’s face value) on a specified date. An issuer may have the right to redeem or “call” a bond before maturity, and the investor may have to reinvest the proceeds at lower market rates. Bonds can be issued by U.S. and foreign governments, states, and municipalities, as well as a wide variety of companies.

A bond’s annual interest income, set by its coupon rate, is usually fixed for the life of the bond. Its yield (income as a percent of current price) will fluctuate to reflect changes in interest rate levels. A bond’s price usually rises when interest rates fall and vice versa, so its yield stays consistent with current market conditions. High yield bond prices are less directly responsive to interest rate changes than investment-grade issues and may not always follow this pattern.

Conventional fixed rate bonds offer a coupon rate for a fixed maturity with no adjustment for inflation. Real rate of return bonds also offer a fixed coupon but include ongoing inflation adjustments for the life of the bond.

Bonds may be unsecured (backed by the issuer’s general creditworthiness only) or secured (also backed by specified collateral). Most high yield “junk” bonds are unsecured. Bonds include asset- and mortgage-backed securities.

Certain bonds have interest rates that are adjusted periodically. These interest rate adjustments tend to minimize fluctuations in the bonds’ principal values. The maturity of those securities may be shortened under certain specified conditions.

Bonds may be designated as senior or subordinated obligations. Senior obligations generally have the first claim on a corporation’s earnings and assets and, in the event of liquidation, are paid before subordinated debt.

High Yield, High-Risk Bonds

The price and yield of lower-quality (high yield, high-risk) bonds, commonly referred to as “junk bonds” and below investment-grade emerging market bonds, can be expected to fluctuate more than the price and yield of higher-quality bonds. Because these bonds are rated below BBB or are in default, they are regarded as predominantly speculative with respect to the issuer’s continuing ability to meet principal and interest payments. Successful investment in lower-medium- and low-quality bonds involves greater investment risk and is highly dependent on T. Rowe Price’s credit analysis. A real or perceived economic downturn or higher interest rates could cause a decline in high yield bond prices by lessening the ability of issuers to make principal and interest payments. These bonds are often thinly traded and can be more difficult to sell and value accurately than high-quality bonds. Because objective pricing data may be less available, judgment may play a greater role in the valuation process. In addition, the entire high yield bond market can experience sudden and sharp price swings due to a variety of factors, including changes in economic forecasts, stock market activity, large or sustained sales by major investors, a high-profile default, or just a change in the market’s psychology. This type of volatility is usually associated more with stocks than bonds, but junk bond investors should be prepared for it.

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Operating policy  The fund may invest up to 20% of its net assets in fixed rate, below investment-grade bonds, or junk bonds.

Zero Coupon Bonds and Pay-in-Kind Bonds and Loans

A zero coupon bond does not make cash interest payments during a portion or all of the life of the bond. Instead, it is sold at a deep discount to face value, and the interest consists of the gradual appreciation in price as the bond approaches maturity. Zero coupon bonds can be an attractive financing method for issuers with near-term cash-flow problems or seeking to preserve liquidity. Pay-in-kind bonds and loans pay interest in cash or additional securities, at the issuer’s or borrower’s option, for a specified period. Like zero coupon bonds, they may help a corporation conserve cash flow. Pay-in-kind prices reflect the market value of the underlying debt plus any accrued interest. Zero coupon bonds and pay-in-kinds can be higher- or lower-quality debt, and both are more volatile than coupon bonds. There is no limit on fund investments in these securities.

The fund is required to distribute to shareholders income imputed to any zero coupon bonds or pay-in-kind investments. Such distributions could reduce the fund’s reserve position and require the fund to sell securities and incur a gain or loss at a time it may not otherwise want to in order to provide the cash necessary for these distributions.

Other types of securities and investments the fund may buy include, but is not limited to:

Deferrable Subordinated Securities

These are securities with long maturities that are deeply subordinated in the issuer’s capital structure. They generally have 30-year maturities and permit the issuer to defer distributions for up to five years. These characteristics give the issuer more financial flexibility than is typically the case with traditional bonds. As a result, the securities may be viewed as possessing certain “equity-like” features by rating agencies and bank regulators. However, the securities are treated as debt securities by market participants, and the fund intends to treat them as such as well. These securities may offer a mandatory put or remarketing option that creates an effective maturity date significantly shorter than the stated one. Fund investments will be made in these securities to the extent their yield, credit, and maturity characteristics are consistent with the fund’s investment objective and program.

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Trade Claims

These are IOUs arising from a business transaction, such as a sale of goods, not from a loan. As a result of the bankruptcy of a company, such claims are typically bought at a discount to their face value, with the size of the discount reflecting the probability of repayment. They may be illiquid and very volatile in price.

Operating policy  Fund investments in trade claims are limited to 5% of total assets.

Common and Preferred Stocks

Stocks represent shares of ownership in a company. Generally, preferred stock has a specified dividend and ranks after bonds and before common stocks in its claim on income for dividend payments and on assets should the company be liquidated. After other claims are satisfied, common stockholders participate in company profits on a pro-rata basis; profits may be paid out in dividends or reinvested in the company to help it grow. Increases and decreases in earnings are usually reflected in a company’s stock price, so common stocks generally have the greatest appreciation and depreciation potential of all corporate securities. Unlike common stock, preferred stock does not ordinarily carry voting rights. While most preferred stocks pay a dividend, a fund may decide to purchase preferred stock where the issuer has omitted, or is in danger of omitting, payment of its dividend.

Convertible Securities and Warrants

Investments may be made in debt or preferred equity securities convertible into, or exchangeable for, equity securities. Traditionally, convertible securities have paid dividends or interest at rates higher than common stocks but lower than nonconvertible securities. They generally participate in the appreciation or depreciation of the underlying stock into which they are convertible, but to a lesser degree than common stock. Some convertible securities combine higher or lower current income with options and other features. Warrants are options to buy, directly from the issuer, a stated number of shares of common stock at a specified price anytime during the life of the warrants (generally, two or more years). Warrants can be highly volatile, have no voting rights, and pay no dividends.

Operating policy  The fund may invest up to 20% of total assets (excluding reserves)  in preferred and common stocks and securities, convertible into, or which carry warrants for, common stocks or other equity securities. These securities may or may not be rated.

Foreign Securities

Investments may be made in foreign securities and in floating rate loans and debt securities that are made to, or issued by, non-U.S. borrowers. These include non-dollar-denominated securities and loans traded outside of the U.S., as well as dollar-denominated securities of foreign issuers and loans of foreign borrowers traded in the U.S. Investing in foreign securities and loans of foreign borrowers involve special risks that can increase the potential for losses. These include: exposure to potentially adverse local, political, and economic developments such as war, political instability, hyperinflation, currency devaluations, and overdependence on particular industries; government interference in markets such as nationalization and exchange controls, expropriation of assets, or imposition of punitive taxes; potentially lower liquidity and higher volatility; possible problems arising from accounting, disclosure, settlement, and regulatory practices and legal rights that differ from U.S. standards; and the chance that fluctuations in foreign exchange rates will decrease the investment’s value (favorable changes can increase its value). In addition, information with respect to foreign borrowers may differ from that available for U.S. borrowers because foreign companies are not generally subject to accounting, auditing and financial reporting standards, practices and requirements comparable to those applicable to U.S. borrowers. These risks are heightened for investments in emerging markets.

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Operating policy  The fund may invest up to 20% of total assets (excluding reserves) in non-U.S. dollar-denominated loans and securities and may invest without limit in U.S. dollar-denominated loans and securities of foreign lenders and issuers. Subject to the overall limit on fund investments in foreign loans and securities, there is no limit on the amount of those investments that may be made in emerging markets.

Mortgage- and Asset-Backed Securities

These may take a variety of forms, including conventional mortgage securities, collateralized mortgage obligations, interest only securities, and principal only securities.

Operating policy  Fund investments in these securities are limited to 5% of total assets.

Derivatives and Leverage

A derivative is a financial instrument whose value is derived from an underlying security such as a stock or bond or from a market benchmark, such as an interest rate index. Many types of investments representing a wide range of risks and potential rewards are derivatives, including conventional instruments such as callable bonds, futures, and options, as well as other potentially more complex investments such as swaps and structured notes. The use of derivatives can involve leverage. Leverage has the effect of magnifying returns, positively or negatively. The effect on returns will depend on the extent to which an investment is leveraged. For example, an investment of $1, leveraged at 2 to 1, would have the effect of an investment of $2. Leverage ratios can be higher or lower with a corresponding effect on returns. The fund may use derivatives in situations to help accomplish the following: The fund uses derivatives as a hedge against a decline in principal value; to increase yield; to invest in eligible asset classes with greater efficiency and at a lower cost than is possible through direct investment; or to adjust portfolio duration or credit risk exposure.

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Derivatives that may be used include the following as well as others that combine the risk characteristics and features of futures, options, and swaps:

Futures and Options

Futures, a type of potentially high-risk derivative, are often used to manage or hedge risk because they enable the investor to buy or sell an asset in the future at an agreed-upon price. Options, another type of potentially high-risk derivative, give the investor the right (when the investor purchases the option), or the obligation (when the investor “writes” or sells the option), to buy or sell an asset at a predetermined price in the future. Futures and options contracts may be bought or sold for any number of reasons, including: to manage exposure to changes in interest rates, bond prices, foreign currencies, and credit quality; as an efficient means of increasing or decreasing a fund’s exposure to a specific part or broad segment of the U.S. market or a foreign market; in an effort to enhance income; to protect the value of portfolio securities; to serve as a cash management tool; and to adjust portfolio duration or credit risk exposure. Call or put options may be purchased or sold on securities, futures, and financial indices.

Futures contracts and options may not always be successful hedges; their prices can be highly volatile; using them could lower fund total return; and the potential loss from the use of futures can exceed a fund’s initial investment in such contracts.

Operating policies  Initial margin deposits on futures and premiums on options used for non-hedging purposes will not exceed 5% of net asset value. The total market value of securities covering call or put options may not exceed 25% of total assets. No more than 5% of total assets will be committed to premiums when purchasing call or put options.

Swaps

Fund investments may be made in interest rate, index, total return, credit default, and other types of swap agreements, as well as options on swaps, commonly referred to as “swaptions.” All of these agreements are considered derivatives and, in certain cases, high-risk derivatives. Interest rate, index, and total return swaps are two-party contracts under which the fund and a counterparty, such as a broker or dealer, agree to exchange the returns (or differentials in rates of return) earned or realized on particular predetermined investments or indices. Credit default swaps are agreements where one party (the protection buyer) will make periodic payments to another party (the protection seller) in exchange for protection against specified credit events, such as defaults and bankruptcies related to an issuer or underlying credit instrument. Swaps and swaptions can be used for a variety of purposes, including: to manage a fund’s exposure to changes in interest or foreign currency exchange rates and credit quality; as an efficient means of adjusting a fund’s exposure to certain markets; in an effort to enhance income or total return or protect the value of portfolio securities; to serve as a cash management tool; and to adjust portfolio duration or credit risk exposure.

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There are risks in the use of swaps and swaptions. Swaps could result in losses if interest or foreign currency exchange rates or credit quality changes are not correctly anticipated by the fund. Total return swaps could result in losses if the reference index, security, or investments do not perform as anticipated. Credit default swaps can increase a fund’s exposure to credit risk and could result in losses if evaluation of the creditworthiness of the counterparty, or of the company or government on which the credit default swap is based, is incorrect. The use of swaps and swaptions may not always be successful. Using them could lower fund total return, their prices can be highly volatile, and the potential loss from the use of swaps can exceed a fund’s initial investment in such instruments. Also, the other party to a swap agreement could default on its obligations or refuse to cash out a fund’s investment at a reasonable price, which could turn an expected gain into a loss.

Operating policies  A swap agreement with any single counterparty will not be entered into if the net amount owed or to be received under existing contracts with that party would exceed 5% of total assets or if the net amount owed or to be received by a fund under all outstanding swap agreements will exceed 10% of total assets. For swaptions, the total market value of securities covering call or put options may not exceed 25% of total assets. No more than 5% of total assets will be committed to premiums when purchasing call or put options.

Hybrid Instruments

These instruments (a type of potentially high-risk derivative) can combine the characteristics of securities, futures, and options. For example, the principal amount or interest rate of a hybrid could be tied (positively or negatively) to the price of some commodity, currency, securities, or securities index or another interest rate (each a “benchmark”). Hybrids can be used as an efficient means of pursuing a variety of investment goals, including currency hedging, duration management, and increased total return. Hybrids may or may not bear interest or pay dividends. The value of a hybrid or its interest rate may be a multiple of a benchmark and, as a result, may be leveraged and move (up or down) more steeply and rapidly than the benchmark. These benchmarks may be sensitive to economic and political events, such as commodity shortages and currency devaluations, which cannot be readily foreseen by the purchaser of a hybrid. Under certain conditions, the redemption value of a hybrid could be zero. Thus, an investment in a hybrid may entail significant market risks that are not associated with a similar investment in a traditional, U.S. dollar-denominated bond that has a fixed principal amount and pays a fixed rate or floating rate of interest. The purchase of hybrids also exposes the fund to the credit risk of the issuer of the hybrid. These risks may cause significant fluctuations in the net asset value of the fund.

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Hybrids can have volatile prices and limited liquidity, and their use may not be successful.

Operating policy  Fund investments in hybrid instruments are limited to 10% of total assets.

Illiquid Securities

Some fund holdings may be considered illiquid because they are subject to legal or contractual restrictions on resale or because they cannot be sold in the ordinary course of business within seven days at approximately the prices at which they are valued. The determination of liquidity involves a variety of factors. The fund invests in loans that are less liquid than securities traded on established secondary markets and certain loans may be considered illiquid. Illiquid securities may include private placements that are sold directly to a small number of investors, usually institutions. Unlike public offerings, such securities are not registered with the SEC. Although certain of these securities may be readily sold, for example under Rule 144A of the Securities Act of 1933, others may have resale restrictions and can be illiquid. The sale of illiquid loans and securities may involve substantial delays and additional costs, and a fund may only be able to sell such loans and securities at prices substantially less than what it believes they are worth.

Operating policy  Fund investments in illiquid securities are limited to 15% of net assets.

Types of Investment Management Practices

Reserve Position

A certain portion of fund assets will be held in reserves. Fund reserve positions can consist of: 1) shares of one or both of the T. Rowe Price internal money funds; 2) short-term, high-quality U.S. and foreign dollar-denominated money market securities, including repurchase agreements; and 3) U.S. dollar or non-U.S. dollar currencies. For temporary, defensive purposes, there is no limit on a fund’s holdings in reserves. If a fund has significant holdings in reserves, it could compromise the fund’s ability to achieve its objectives. The reserve position provides flexibility in meeting redemptions, paying expenses, and in the timing of new investments and can serve as a short-term defense during periods of unusual market volatility. Non-U.S. dollar reserves are subject to currency risk.

Managing Foreign Currency Risk

Investors in foreign securities may attempt to hedge their exposure to potentially unfavorable currency changes. The primary means of doing this is through the use of forward currency contracts, which are contracts between two counterparties to exchange one currency for another on some future date at a specified exchange rate. However, futures, swaps, and options on foreign currencies may also be used. In certain circumstances, a different currency may be substituted for the currency in which the investment is denominated, a strategy known as proxy hedging. The fund may also use these instruments to create a synthetic bond–issued in one currency but with the currency component transformed into another currency. Foreign currency forwards, options and futures may be used to protect a fund’s foreign securities from adverse currency movements relative to the U.S. dollar, as well as to gain exposure to currencies and markets expected to increase or decrease in value relative to other currencies or securities. Such transactions involve, among other risks, the risk that anticipated currency movements will not occur, which could reduce fund total return. There are certain markets, including many emerging markets, where it is not possible to engage in effective foreign currency hedging.

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Operating policy  The fund will not commit more than 20% of total assets to any combination of the types of foreign currency instruments previously described.

Short Sales

The fund may sell a security short as a hedge against portfolio holdings that may be expected to decline in value. In short sales, investors sell borrowed securities in hopes of buying them back later at a lower price. However, if the price rises instead of falls, the investor will lose money when repurchasing the security.

Operating policy  The fund’s short sales are limited to situations where the fund owns a debt security of a company and sells short a different type of security issued by the same company, such as common or preferred stock or a senior or junior debt security. The total market value of all securities sold short may not exceed 2% of fund net assets.

When-Issued Securities and Forwards

The fund may purchase securities on a when-issued or delayed delivery basis or may purchase or sell securities on a forward commitment basis. There is no limit on fund investments in these securities. The price of these securities is fixed at the time of the commitment to buy, but delivery and payment can take place a month or more later. During the interim period, the market value of the securities can fluctuate, and no interest accrues to the purchaser. At the time of delivery, the value of the securities may be more or less than the purchase or sale price. To the extent the fund remains fully or almost fully invested (in securities with a remaining maturity of more than one year) at the same time it purchases these securities, there will be greater fluctuations in the fund’s net asset value than if the fund did not purchase them.

Borrowing Money and Transferring Assets

A fund may borrow from banks, other persons, and other T. Rowe Price funds for temporary emergency purposes to facilitate redemption requests, or for other purposes consistent with fund policies as set forth in this prospectus. Such borrowings may be collateralized with fund assets, subject to restrictions.

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Fundamental policy  Borrowings may not exceed 33 1/3% of total assets. 

Operating policy  A fund will not transfer portfolio securities as collateral except as necessary in connection with permissible borrowings or investments, and then such transfers may not exceed 33 1/3% of total assets. A fund will not purchase additional securities when borrowings exceed 5% of total assets. A fund will not purchase additional securities when borrowings exceed 5% of total assets.

Lending of Portfolio Securities

A fund may lend its securities to broker-dealers, other institutions, or other persons to earn additional income. Risks include the potential insolvency of the broker-dealer or other borrower that could result in delays in recovering securities and capital losses. Additionally, losses could result from the reinvestment of collateral received on loaned securities in investments that default or do not perform as well as expected.

Fundamental policy The value of loaned securities may not exceed 33 1/3% of total assets.

Credit Quality Considerations

The credit quality of many fund holdings is evaluated by rating agencies such as Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s. Credit quality refers to the issuer’s ability to meet all required interest and principal payments. The highest ratings are assigned to companies perceived to be the best credit risks. T. Rowe Price research analysts also evaluate all fund holdings, including those rated by outside agencies. Other things being equal, lower-rated bonds and other debt obligations have higher yields due to greater credit risk. High-yield bonds, also called “junk” bonds, are those rated below BBB.

Credit quality ratings are not guarantees. They are estimates of a company’s financial strength and ability to make interest and principal payments as they come due. Ratings can change at any time due to real or perceived changes in a company’s credit or financial fundamentals.

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The following table shows the rating scale used by the major rating agencies.

Ratings of Corporate Debt Securities

	Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.	Standard & Poor’s Corporation	Fitch Ratings	Definition
Long Term	Aaa	AAA	AAA	Highest quality
	Aa	AA	AA	High quality
	A	A	A	Upper-medium grade
	Baa	BBB	BBB	Medium grade
	Ba	BB	BB	Speculative
	B	B	B	Highly speculative
	Caa	CCC	CCC	Vulnerable to default
	Ca	CC	CC	Default is imminent
	C	C	C	Probably in default

Portfolio Turnover

Turnover is an indication of frequency of trading. A fund will not generally trade in securities for short-term profits, but when circumstances warrant, securities may be purchased and sold without regard to the length of time held. Each time a fund purchases or sells a security, it incurs a cost. This cost is reflected in its net asset value but not in its operating expenses. The higher the turnover rate, the higher the transaction costs and the greater the impact on a fund’s total returns. Higher turnover can also increase the possibility of taxable capital gain distributions.

Funds investing in bonds may have higher turnover than funds investing in stocks. Unlike stocks, fixed-maturity bonds require reinvestment. For funds investing in mortgages and callable debt, frequent reinvestment of principal is often required. Common trading strategies, such as mortgage dollar rolls, can increase turnover. Active investment strategies, such as sector rotation and duration management, also necessitate more frequent trading. The fund’s portfolio turnover rate for the initial period of operations may exceed 100%.

DISCLOSURE OF FUND PORTFOLIO INFORMATION

Each T. Rowe Price fund’s portfolio holdings are disclosed on a regular basis in its semiannual and annual shareholder reports, and on Form N-Q, which is filed with the SEC within 60 days of the fund’s first and third fiscal quarter-end. The money funds file detailed month-end portfolio holdings information with the SEC each month. Such information will be made available to the public 60 days after the end of the month to which the information pertains. In addition, the funds disclose their calendar quarter-end portfolio holdings on troweprice.com 15 calendar days after each quarter. Under certain conditions, up to 5% of a fund’s holdings may be included in this portfolio list without being individually identified. Generally, securities would not be individually identified if they are being actively bought or sold and it is determined that the quarter-end disclosure of the holding could be harmful to the fund. A security will not be excluded for these purposes from a fund’s quarter-end holdings disclosure for more than one year. Money funds also disclose their month-end portfolio holdings on troweprice.com five business days after each month. The quarter-end portfolio holdings will remain on the website for one year and the month-end money fund portfolio holdings will remain on the website for six months. Each fund also discloses its 10 largest holdings on troweprice.com on the seventh business day after each month-end. These holdings are listed in alphabetical order along with the aggregate percentage of the fund’s total assets that these 10 holdings represent. Each monthly top 10 list will remain on the website for six months. A description of T. Rowe Price’s policies and procedures with respect to the disclosure of portfolio information is in the Statement of Additional Information.

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ACCOUNT REQUIREMENTS AND TRANSACTION INFORMATION

If you are purchasing fund shares through a third-party intermediary, contact the intermediary for information regarding the intermediary’s policies on purchasing, exchanging, and redeeming fund shares as well as initial and subsequent investment minimums.

Tax Identification
Number We must have your correct Social Security or employer identification number on a signed New Account Form or W-9 Form. Otherwise, federal law requires the funds to withhold a percentage of your dividends, capital gain distributions, and redemptions and may subject you to an Internal Revenue Service fine. If this information is not received within 60 days after your account is established, your account may be redeemed at the fund’s net asset value on the redemption date.

Transaction Confirmations We send immediate confirmations for most of your fund transactions, but some, such as systematic purchases, dividend reinvestments, checkwriting redemptions for money funds, and transactions in money funds used as a T. Rowe Price Brokerage sweep account, may be reported on your account statement. Please review confirmations and statements as soon as you receive them and promptly report any discrepancies to Shareholder Services by calling
1-800-225-5132.

Employer-Sponsored
Retirement Plans and
Institutional Accounts T. Rowe Price
Trust Company 1-800-492-7670 Transaction procedures in the following sections may not apply to employer-sponsored retirement plans and institutional accounts. For procedures regarding employer-sponsored retirement plans, please call T. Rowe Price Trust Company or consult your plan administrator. For institutional account procedures, please call your designated account manager or service representative.

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We do not accept third-party checks for initial purchases; however, we do accept third party checks for subsequent purchases. In addition, T. Rowe Price does not accept purchases by cash, traveler’s checks, or credit card checks.

OPENING A NEW ACCOUNT

$2,500 minimum initial investment; $1,000 for retirement plans or Uniform Gifts to Minors Act/Uniform Transfers to Minors Act accounts ($25,000 minimum initial investment for Summit Funds only)

Important Information
About Opening an Account Pursuant to federal law, all financial institutions must obtain, verify, and record information that identifies each person or entity that opens an account. This information is needed not only for the person who opens an account, but also for any person who has authority to act on behalf of the account. When you open an account, you will be asked for the name, residential street address, date of birth, and Social Security number or employer identification number for each account owner and person(s) opening an account on behalf of others, such as custodians, agents, trustees, or other authorized signers. Corporate and other institutional accounts require documents showing the existence of the entity (such as articles of incorporation or partnership agreements) to open an account. Certain other fiduciary accounts (such as trusts or power of attorney arrangements) require documentation, which may include an original or certified copy of the trust agreement or power of attorney to open an account. For more information, call Investor Services at
1-800-638-5660. We will use this information to verify the identity of the person(s)/entity opening the account. We will not be able to open your account until we receive all of this information. If we are unable to verify your identity, we are authorized to take any action permitted by law. (See Rights Reserved by the Funds.)

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The funds are generally available only to investors residing in the United States. In addition, purchases in state tax-free funds are limited to investors living in states where the fund is available. The address of record on your account must be located in one of these states or you will be restricted from purchasing fund shares. Contact Investor Services for more information.

Account Registration If you own other T. Rowe Price funds, be sure to register any new account just like your existing accounts so you can exchange shares among them easily. (The name(s) of the account owner(s) and the account type must be identical.) For joint accounts or other types of accounts owned or controlled by more than one party, either owner/party has complete authority to act on behalf of all and give instructions concerning the account without notice to the other party. T. Rowe Price may, in its sole discretion, require written authorization from all owners/parties to act on the account for certain transactions (for example, to transfer ownership).

By Mail Please make your check payable to T. Rowe Price Funds (otherwise it will be returned), and send your check, together with the New Account Form, to the appropriate address below: via U.S. Postal Service
T. Rowe Price Account Services
P.O. Box 17300
Baltimore, MD 21297-1300 via private carriers/overnight services
T. Rowe Price Account ServicesMailcode 17300
4515 Painters Mill Road
Owings Mills, MD 21117-4903 Note: Please use the correct address to avoid a delay in opening your new account.

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By Wire Call Investor Services for an account number and wire transfer instructions. In order to obtain an account number, you must supply the name, date of birth, Social Security or employer identification number, and residential or business street address for each owner on the account. Complete a New Account Form and mail it to one of the appropriate T. Rowe Price addresses listed under By Mail. Note: Investment will be made, but services may not be established and Internal Revenue Service penalty withholding may occur until we receive a signed New Account Form.

Online You can open a new mutual fund account online. Go to troweprice.com/newaccount, where you can choose the type of account you wish to open. To open an account electronically, you must be a U.S. citizen residing in the U.S. or a resident alien and not subject to Internal Revenue Service backup withholding. Additionally, you must provide consent to receive certain documents electronically. You will have the option of providing your bank account information that will enable you to make electronic funds transfers to and from your bank account. To set up this banking service online, additional steps will be taken to verify your identity.

Call Shareholder Services or use your computer (see Automated Services under Information About Your Services). The new account will have the same registration as the account from which you are exchanging. Services for the new account may be carried over by telephone request if they are preauthorized on the existing account. For limitations on exchanging, please see Transaction Procedures and Special Requirements – Excessive and Short-Term Trading.

In Person Drop off your New Account Form at any location listed on the back cover and obtain a receipt.

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PURCHASING ADDITIONAL SHARES

$100 minimum per fund account for all additional purchases, including those made through Automatic Asset Builder (all funds except Summit Funds); $100 minimum per fund account for additional purchases through Automatic Asset Builder and $1,000 for all other additional purchases (Summit Funds)

By Automated
Clearing House Use your computer or call Shareholder Services if you have established electronic transfers using the Automated Clearing House system.

By Wire Call Shareholder Services or access troweprice.com  for wire transfer instructions. For purchases by wire, the wire must be received by T. Rowe Price by the close of the New York Stock Exchange to receive that day’s share price. You may not receive the share price for the same day the wire was initiated.

By Mail 1.   Make your check payable to T. Rowe Price Funds (otherwise it may be returned). 2.   Mail the check to us at the following address with either a fund reinvestment slip or a note indicating the fund you want to buy and your fund account number. Please use the correct address to avoid a delay in processing your transaction. 3.   Remember to provide your account number and the fund name on the memo line of your check.

via U.S. Postal Service
T. Rowe Price Account Services
P.O. Box 17300
Baltimore, MD 21297-1300

(To send mail directly to T. Rowe Price via private carriers and overnight services, see previous section.)

Your transaction will receive the share price for the business day that the request is received by T. Rowe Price prior to the close of the New York Stock Exchange (not the day the request is received at the P.O. Box).

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By Automatic
Asset Builder Fill out the Automatic Asset Builder section on the New Account or Shareholder Services Form.

EXCHANGING AND REDEEMING SHARES

Exchange Service You can move money from one account to an existing, identically registered account or open a new identically registered account. Remember, exchanges are purchases and sales for tax purposes. (Exchanges into a state tax-free fund are limited to investors living in states where the fund is available.) For exchange policies, please see Transaction Procedures and Special Requirements – Excessive and Short-Term Trading.

Redemptions Redemption proceeds can be mailed to your account address, sent by Automated Clearing House transfer to your bank, or wired to your bank (provided your bank information is already on file). Redemption proceeds of less than $5,000 sent by wire are subject to a $5 fee paid to the fund. Please note that large purchase and redemption requests initiated through automated services, including the National Securities Clearing Corporation, may be rejected and, in such instances, the transaction must be placed by contacting a service representative.

If you request to redeem a specific dollar amount, and the market value of your account is less than the amount of your request, your redemption will not be processed and you will need to submit a new redemption request in proper form. If you change your address on an account, proceeds will not be mailed to the new address for 15 calendar days after the address change, unless we receive a signature guaranteed letter of instruction.

Some of the T. Rowe Price funds may impose a redemption fee. Check the fund’s prospectus under Contingent Redemption Fee in Pricing Shares and Receiving Sale Proceeds. The fee is paid to the fund.

For redemptions by check or electronic transfer, please see Information About Your Services.

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By Phone Call Shareholder Services If you find our phones busy during unusually volatile markets, please consider placing your order at troweprice.com  (if you have previously authorized these services) or express mail.

By Mail For each account involved, provide the account name and number, fund name, and exchange or redemption amount. For exchanges, be sure to specify any fund you are exchanging out of and the fund or funds you are exchanging into. T. Rowe Price may require a signature guarantee of all registered owners (see Transaction Procedures and Special Requirements – Signature Guarantees). Please use the appropriate address below to avoid a delay in processing your transaction: For nonretirement and individual retirement accounts:
via U.S. Postal Service
T. Rowe Price Account Services
P.O. Box 17302
Baltimore, MD 21297-1302 via private carriers/overnight services
T. Rowe Price Account Services
Mailcode 17302
4515 Painters Mill Road
Owings Mills, MD 21117-4903 For employer-sponsored retirement accounts:
via U.S. Postal Service
T. Rowe Price Trust Company
P.O. Box 17479
Baltimore, MD 21297-1479 via private carriers/overnight services
T. Rowe Price Trust Company
Mailcode 17479
4515 Painters Mill Road
Owings Mills, MD 21117-4903

For requests that are not sent via private carriers or overnight services, your transaction will receive the share price for the business day that the request is received by T. Rowe Price prior to the close of the New York Stock Exchange (not the day the request is received at the P.O. Box).

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Requests for redemptions from employer-sponsored retirement accounts may be required to be in writing; please call T. Rowe Price Trust Company or your plan administrator for instructions. Individual retirement account distributions may be requested in writing or by telephone; please call Shareholder Services to obtain an Individual Retirement Account Distribution Form or an Individual Retirement Account Shareholder Services Form to authorize the telephone redemption service.

Online Customers with Account Access (our secure self-service web platform for individual investors) can electronically exchange shares between identically registered T. Rowe Price accounts and electronically redeem shares from their mutual fund accounts.

RIGHTS RESERVED BY THE FUNDS

T. Rowe Price funds and their agents, in their sole discretion, reserve the following rights: (1) to waive or lower investment minimums; (2) to accept initial purchases by telephone; (3) to refuse any purchase or exchange order; (4) to cancel or rescind any purchase or exchange order placed through an intermediary, no later than the business day after the order is received by the intermediary (including, but not limited to, orders deemed to result in excessive trading, market timing, or 5% ownership); (5) to cease offering fund shares at any time to all or certain groups of investors; (6) to freeze any account and suspend account services when notice has been received of a dispute regarding the ownership of the account or a legal claim against an account, or there is reason to believe a fraudulent transaction may occur; (7) to otherwise modify the conditions of purchase and modify or terminate any services at any time; (8) to waive any wire, small account, maintenance, or fiduciary fees charged to a group of shareholders; (9) to act on instructions reasonably believed to be genuine; (10) to involuntarily redeem your account at the net asset value calculated the day the account is redeemed, in cases of threatening conduct, suspected fraudulent or illegal activity, or if the fund or its agent is unable, through its procedures, to verify the identity of the person(s) or entity opening an account; and (11) for money funds, to suspend redemptions and postpone the payment of proceeds to facilitate an orderly liquidation of the fund.

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INFORMATION ABOUT YOUR SERVICES

Shareholder Services 1-800-225-5132 Investor Services 1-800-638-5660 Many services are available to you as a shareholder; some you receive automatically, and others you must authorize or request on the New Account Form. By signing up for services on the New Account Form, you avoid having to complete a separate form at a later time and obtain a signature guarantee. This section discusses some of the services currently offered.

Retirement Plans We offer a wide range of plans for individuals, institutions, and large and small businesses: Traditional IRAs, Roth IRAs, SIMPLE IRAs, SEP-IRAs, 401(k)s, and 403(b)(7)s. For information on individual retirement accounts or our no-load variable annuity (for existing variable annuity contract holders), call Investor Services. For information on all other retirement plans, please call our Trust Company at 1-800-492-7670.

Investing for College
Expenses We can help you save for future college expenses on a tax-advantaged basis. Education Savings Accounts (formerly known as Education IRAs)
Invest up to $2,000 a year per beneficiary depending on your annual income; account earnings are federal income tax-free when used for qualified expenses. 529 Plans
T. Rowe Price manages three 529 plans that are available directly to investors: the T. Rowe Price College Savings Plan (a national plan sponsored by the Education Trust of Alaska), the Maryland College Investment Plan, and the University of Alaska College Savings Plan. Account earnings are federal income tax-free when used for qualified expenses. For more information on the T. Rowe Price College Savings Plan (national plan), call 1-800-369-3641; Maryland College Investment Plan, call 1-888-4-MD-GRAD; and University of Alaska College Savings Plan, call
1-866-277-1005.

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Automated Services Tele*Access^SM 1-800-638-2587 24 hours, 7 days Tele*Access^SM
24-hour service via a toll-free number enables you to access information on fund performance, prices, distributions, account balances, and your latest transaction.

Web Address
troweprice.com Online Account Access
You can sign up online to conduct account transactions  through our website at troweprice.com. 

Plan Account Line 1-800-401-3279 This 24-hour service is similar to Tele*Access^SM but is designed  specifically to meet the needs of retirement plan investors.

By Telephone and
In Person Buy, sell, or exchange shares by calling one of our service representatives or by visiting one of our investor center locations whose addresses are listed on the back cover.

Electronic Transfers By Automated Clearing House
This free service allows you to move as little as $100 or as much as $250,000 between your bank account and fund account using the Automated Clearing House system. Enter instructions via your personal computer or call Shareholder Services. By Wire
Electronic transfers can be conducted via bank wire. There is a $5 fee for wire redemptions under $5,000, and your bank may charge for incoming or outgoing wire transfers regardless of size.

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Checkwriting (Not available for equity funds or the Emerging Markets Bond, Emerging Markets Local Currency Bond, High Yield, International Bond, or U.S. Bond Index Funds) You may write an unlimited number of free checks on any money fund and most bond funds, with a minimum of $500 per check. Keep in mind, however, that a check results in a redemption; a check written on a bond fund will create a taxable event which you and we must report to the Internal Revenue Service.

Automatic Investing Automatic Asset Builder
You can instruct us to automatically transfer money from your bank account, or you can instruct your employer to send all or a portion of your paycheck to the fund or funds you designate.  Each systematic purchase must be at least $100 per fund account in order to establish the Automatic Asset Builder service.  Minimum initial purchase requirements will still apply. Automatic Exchange
You can set up systematic investments from one fund account into another, such as from a money fund into a stock fund.

T. ROWE PRICE BROKERAGE

To Open an Account 1-800-638-5660 For Existing
Brokerage Customers 1-800-225-7720 Investments available through our brokerage service include stocks, options, bonds, and others at commission savings over full-service brokers.* We also provide a wide range of services, including: Automated Telephone and Computer Services
You can enter stock and option orders, access quotes, and review account information around the clock by phone with Tele-Trader or via the Internet with Account Access-Brokerage. Investor Information
A variety of informative reports, such as our Brokerage Insights series, as well as access to online research tools, can help you better evaluate economic trends and investment opportunities. Dividend Reinvestment Service
If you elect to participate in this service, the cash dividends from the eligible securities held in your account will automatically be reinvested in additional shares of the same securities free of charge. Most securities listed on national securities exchanges or NASDAQ are eligible for this service. *Services vary by firm. T. Rowe Price Brokerage is a division of T. Rowe Price Investment Services, Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC.

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INVESTMENT INFORMATION

To help you monitor your investments and make decisions that accurately reflect your financial goals, T. Rowe Price offers a wide variety of information in addition to account statements. Most of this information is also available on our website at troweprice.com. 

If your account has no activity in it for a certain period of time, T. Rowe Price may be required to transfer your account to the appropriate state under its abandoned property laws.

A note on mailing procedures: If two or more members of a household own the same fund, we economize on fund expenses by sending only one fund report and prospectus. If you need additional copies or do not want your mailings to be “householded,” please call Shareholder Services at 1-800-225-5132 or write to us at P.O. Box 17630, Baltimore, MD 21297-1630.

Shareholder Reports
Fund managers’ annual and semiannual reviews of their strategies and performance.

The T. Rowe Price Report
A quarterly investment newsletter discussing markets and financial strategies and including the Performance Update, a review of all T. Rowe Price fund results.

Insights
Educational reports on investment strategies and financial markets.

Investment Guides
Asset Mix Worksheet, Diversifying Overseas: A T. Rowe Price Guide to International Investing, Managing Your Retirement Distribution, Retirement Readiness Guide, and Retirement Planning Kit.

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T. Rowe Price Privacy Policy

In the course of doing business with T. Rowe Price, you share personal and financial information with us. We treat this information as confidential and recognize the importance of protecting access to it.

You may provide information when communicating or transacting business with us in writing, electronically, or by phone. For instance, information may come from applications, requests for forms or literature, and your transactions and account positions with us. On occasion, such information may come from consumer reporting agencies and those providing services to us.

We do not sell information about current or former customers to any third parties, and we do not disclose it to third parties unless necessary to process a transaction, service an account, or as otherwise permitted by law. We may share information within the T. Rowe Price family of companies in the course of providing or offering products and services to best meet your investing needs. We may also share that information with companies that perform administrative or marketing services for T. Rowe Price, with a research firm we have hired, or with a business partner, such as a bank or insurance company with which we are developing or offering investment products. When we enter into such a relationship, our contracts restrict the companies’ use of our customer information, prohibiting them from sharing or using it for any purposes other than those for which they were hired.

We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your personal information. Within T. Rowe Price, access to such information is limited to those who need it to perform their jobs, such as servicing your accounts, resolving problems, or informing you of new products or services. Finally, our Code of Ethics, which applies to all employees, restricts the use of customer information and requires that it be held in strict confidence.

This Privacy Policy applies to the following T. Rowe Price family of companies: T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc.; T. Rowe Price Advisory Services, Inc.; T. Rowe Price Investment Services, Inc.; T. Rowe Price Savings Bank; T. Rowe Price Trust Company; and the T. Rowe Price Funds.

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To help you achieve your financial goals, T. Rowe Price offers a wide range of stock, bond, and money market investments, as well as convenient services and informative reports.

For mutual fund or T. Rowe Price Brokerage information

Investor Services

1-800-638-5660

For existing accounts

Shareholder Services

1-800-225-5132

For the hearing impaired

1-800-367-0763

For performance, prices, or account information

Tele*Access^SM

24 hours, 7 days
1-800-638-2587

Internet address

troweprice.com

Plan Account Line

For retirement plan investors: The appropriate 800 number appears on your retirement account statement.

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Investor Centers For directions, call
1-800-225-5132 or
visit our website Baltimore Area Downtown 105 East Lombard
Street Owings Mills Three Financial Center
4515 Painters Mill Road Boston Area 386 Washington Street
Wellesley Chicago Area Northbrook 40 Skokie Boulevard
Suite 100 Oak Brook 1900 Spring Road
Suite 104 Colorado Springs 2260 Briargate Parkway Florida Area Boca Raton Wachovia Plaza
925 S. Federal Highway
Suite 175 Tampa 4211 W. Boy Scout
Boulevard
8th Floor Los Angeles Area 10100 Santa Monica
Boulevard
Suite 100
Century City New Jersey Area Short Hills 51 JFK Parkway
1st Floor West Paramus 35 Plaza Office Center
East 81 Route 4 West New York Area 1100 Franklin Avenue
Suite 101
Garden City San Francisco Area 1990 N. California Boulevard
Suite 100
Walnut Creek Washington, D.C. Area Downtown 900 17th Street, N.W.
Farragut Square Tysons Corner 1600 Tysons Boulevard
Suite 150
McLean, Virginia A Statement of Additional Information for the T. Rowe Price family of funds has been filed with the SEC and is incorporated by reference into this prospectus. Further information about fund investments, including a review of market conditions and the manager’s recent investment strategies and their impact on performance during the past fiscal year, is available in the annual and semiannual shareholder reports. To obtain free copies of any of these documents, or for shareholder inquiries, call 1-800-638-5660. These documents and updated performance information are available through troweprice.com. Fund information and Statements of Additional Information are also available from the Public Reference Room of the SEC. Information on the operation of the Public Reference Room may be obtained by calling the SEC at
1-202-551-8090. Fund reports and other fund information are available on the EDGAR Database on the SEC’s Internet site at http://www.sec.gov. Copies of this information may be obtained, after paying a duplicating fee, by electronic request at publicinfo@sec.gov, or by writing the Public Reference Room, Washington, D.C. 20549-1520.