Royce Small-Cap Special Equity Fund Mentioned by Russ Kinnel on Consuelo Mack Wealth Track.—Royce
article 10-06-2023

Royce Small-Cap Special Equity Fund Mentioned by Russ Kinnel on Consuelo Mack Wealth Track

Director of Manager Research at Morningstar Research Services, Russ Kinnel, was a guest on Consuelo Mack Wealth Track in August, where he touted Royce Small-Cap Special Equity Fund as “a wonderful diversifier.”

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On 8/4/23, Consuelo Mack hosted Russ Kinnel, Director of Manager Research at Morningstar Research Services, who mentioned Royce Small-Cap Special Equity Fund, which is managed by Charlie Dreifus, CFA®, as a fund he owns and whose approach appeals to him.

Kinnel spoke about his “Thrilling 33,” a list he generates “with a few simple, strict screens to narrow a universe of 15,000 fund share classes down to a short list ranging between 25 and 50” and his own “Top 10” fund holdings. When discussing the latter list, he said that he owns Special Equity because not many funds do what Charlie and his team do, “which is look for clean accounting, clean balance sheets—reasonably priced companies with good cash flow.” He went on to say that he felt the Fund’s attention to accounting helped it to avoid “blow ups” and that this attention “really comes to the fore in recessions and bear markets… I think it’s a wonderful diversifier. If you’ve got a lot of aggressive growth funds, [or] large cap, this is a Fund that’s going to behave differently. There’s a real value there.”

You can watch the video here.

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Average Annual Total Returns as of 9/30/2023 (%)

  QTD1 1YR 3YR 5YR 10YR SINCE
INCEPT.
DATE ANNUAL
OPERATING EXPENSES
NET               GROSS
Small-Cap Special Equity -3.96 15.47 11.43 5.34 5.70 8.34 05/01/98  1.21  1.21
Russell 2000 Value
-2.96 7.84 13.32 2.59 6.19 7.17 N/A  N/A  N/A
Russell 2000
-5.13 8.93 7.16 2.40 6.65 6.67 N/A  N/A  N/A
1 Not annualized.

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