Chuck Royce in Business Insider on Being a Small-Cap Pioneer
article 05-31-2023

Chuck Royce in Business Insider on Being a Small-Cap Pioneer

Chuck and co-CIO Francis Gannon talk about our flagship’s long-term record and three high-confidence holdings.

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Chuck Royce and Francis Gannon spoke recently to Marley Jay of Business Insider about Chuck’s long-term record managing Royce Pennsylvania Mutual Fund and how not many investors “got into the market before the advent of a major index” as Chuck did before the inception of the Russell 2000 Index. Chuck said, “We were early in identifying [small cap] as a category for investing even before Russell showed up."

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The article also looked at the evolution of Chuck’s approach, including the critical realization that “risk is as important as reward and the work has to be around the risk factors. I came to an early feeling that risk management has to be part of the goal."

The piece continues with a discussion of three holdings in which Chuck and Francis have especially high confidence.

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Average Annual Total Returns as of 3/31/2023 (%)

  QTD1 1YR 3YR 5YR 10YR 45YR DATE ANNUAL
OPERATING EXPENSES
NET               GROSS
Pennsylvania Mutual 8.15 -1.30 21.46 7.24 8.53 12.19 N/A  0.96  0.96
Russell 2000
2.74 -11.61 17.51 4.71 8.04 N/A N/A  N/A  N/A
1 Not annualized.

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