private industry financial services founded kansas city missouri u.s. 1958 headquarters kansas city missouri u.s. key people jonathan thomas ceo and president james e. stowers jr. founder products mutual funds institutional separate accounts commingled trusts and sub advisory accounts number of employees 1 300 2012 website american century american century towers kansas city missouri american century investments is a privately controlled and independent investment management firm . contents 1 operations 2 history 3 references 4 external links operations edit the company has approximately 1 300 employees and its headquarters are located at 4500 main in kansas city missouri near the country club plaza ; the company also has offices in new york london hong kong mountain view california and kansas city missouri . history edit the company was founded by james e. stowers jr. in 1958 as twentieth century mutual funds . after both suffering from cancer stowers and his wife founded the stowers institute for medical research in 1994 . the stowers dedicated their personal fortune to endow the institute with gifts totaling 2 billion . today the 600 000 square foot 56 000 m2 biomedical research facility is situated on a 10 acre 40 000 m2 campus in the heart of kansas city near the headquarters of american century investments . more than 40 % of aci s profits support research to find cures for such genetically based diseases as cancer diabetes and dementia . 1 2 in 2011 jp morgan chase sold their 41 % stake in aci to toronto based bank cibc . 3 4 cibc resold its stake to nomura holdings for around 1 billion as it could not gain full control of aci . the stake gave nomura 10.1 % of the voting rights . 5 references edit prosper with purpose overview american century investments . americancentury.com . 2016 02 25 . retrieved 2016 07 15 . american century championship supports stowers institute for medical research world golf news . worldgolf.com . 2014 06 12 . retrieved 2016 07 15 . archived copy . archived from the original on 2011 09 27 . retrieved 2011 07 25 . archived copy . archived from the original on 2011 07 19 . retrieved 2014 07 01 . fukase atsuko 2015 12 21 . nomura to buy 41 % stake in u.s. mutual fund manager . wsj.com . retrieved 2016 07 15 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title american century investments & oldid 743787370 categories investment management companies of the united statescompanies based in kansas city missourimutual fund familiesamerican companies established in 19581958 establishments in missourihidden categories official website different in wikidata and wikipedia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 11 october 2016 at 07 49 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view