CLIENT FOCUS DRIVES $300B MILESTONE

American Century Investments achieves historic asset growth with a focus on clients while also advancing global health

KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 19, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- On Sept. 19, 2025, American Century Investments, the global asset manager, passed $300 billion in assets under supervision for the first time since its founding in 1958. The milestone comes as American Century continues its legacy of helping clients succeed, innovating investment solutions, and supporting breakthrough medical research through its unique ownership structure which has directed more than $2 billion since 2000 to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research.

"Sixty-six years ago, American Century started with $100,000 in two mutual funds and a fundamental belief that making clients successful would make us successful. That vision has driven our relentless focus on delighting clients, leading us to continuously evolve to meet our clients' preferences and create more and improved investment solutions for a broader client base. Today, with $300 billion across 10 investment vehicles, including ETFs, mutual funds, collective investment trusts, separately managed accounts, private investments and other vehicle types, we are extremely grateful for our clients' trust and success," said Jonathan Thomas, chairman, chief executive officer and president of American Century. "Together, we're not only focused on building financial futures—we're also advancing global health as a result of directing more than 40% of our profits, each year, to fund medical research."

In the past two years, American Century has built on its leadership position in active ETFs to expand its investment capabilities globally, introduced a private investments team to open the door for clients to companies and instruments that aren't available in the public markets, and continues to develop its long-term client relationships.

Active ETF growth takes American Century around the world

American Century launched its ETF platform in 2018 to provide clients with lower-cost, tax-efficient investment strategies. In 2019, American Century launched Avantis Investors, a breakthrough approach that combines the consistency of indexing with active management's potential for outperformance.

By 2025, American Century and Avantis ETFs had grown into a $75 billion investment offering, making the firm the fourth-largest issuer of active ETFs in the U.S.² Over the past year, Avantis has begun to offer a series of new UCITS ETFs in Europe, the next step in meeting client demand for Avantis solutions outside the U.S.

"Entering the ETF space was a pivotal step in our transformation, and we have become the fifth-fastest growing among a universe of 71 active ETF issuers¹ over the past five years. Our agility has been a critical advantage as we come up with better ways to serve our clients and develop firm-wide capabilities to design, manage and distribute solutions such as our ETFs for our clients," said Thomas.

Awards recognize client relationship excellence

Independent awards recognize American Century for its focus on clients. American Century received the Service Factor Award from Citywire Pro Buyer for fund manager accessibility. Additional accolades from Citywire Pro Buyer recognized the firm's excellence in relationship management, product expertise, and responsiveness. Citywire's awards are based on the findings of its annual professional buyer survey.

Doing better for clients means doing more for everyone

Since 2000, American Century has directed more than $2 billion to the Stowers Institute, a world-class biomedical research facility that employs over 500 people supporting foundational research dedicated to understanding the causes, treatment and prevention of diseases. 

"Our ownership model is unlike any other in the industry," said Thomas. "It allows us to do more for the world as we do better for our clients."

About American Century Investments

American Century Investments is a leading global asset manager focused on delivering investment results and building long-term client relationships while supporting breakthrough medical research. Founded in 1958, American Century Investments' 1,400 employees serve financial professionals, institutions, corporations and individual investors from offices in Kansas City, Missouri; New York; Los Angeles; Santa Clara, California; Portland, Oregon; London; Frankfurt, Germany; Hong Kong; and Sydney. Jonathan S. Thomas is chairman, chief executive officer and president, and Victor Zhang serves as chief investment officer. Delivering investment results to clients enables American Century Investments to distribute over 40% of its dividends to the Stowers Institute for Medical Research, a 500-person, nonprofit biomedical research organization with a focus on foundational research. The Institute owns more than 40% of American Century Investments and has received dividend payments of more than $2 billion since 2000. For more information about American Century Investments, visit www.americancentury.com. 

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Investment return and principal value of security investments will fluctuate. The value at the time of redemption may be more or less than the original cost. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.

¹ Source: Morningstar.com. How Avantis Became One of the Fastest-Growing Fund Companies | Morningstar – 7.31.24
² Data reflects past performance and that past performance is no guarantee of future results. Ranking based on AUM of 321 active ETF issuers excluding fund-of-funds and feeders, reporting to Morningstar Direct as of Aug. 28, 2025.

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