MutualFundWire.com: Fortune Gives Props to the Royce Fund
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Fortune Gives Props to the Royce Fund


Fortune senior editor-at-large Allan Sloan paid his respects to the recently reorganized Royce Select Fund.

Sloan applauds the fund because designer Chuck Royce constructed it with a unique fee structure.
Our tale begins in 1998 with mutual fund pioneer Chuck Royce, who was looking for a way to better align fund investors' interests with managers' interests. Managers typically get a fee based on the fund's size, and investors absorb its expenses. Even if investors get stomped, the managers still get their fee. Royce Select was designed to be different. Royce & Associates (now owned by Legg Mason) would get 12.5% of any profits that investors made, and would absorb all the expenses. If the fund's value declined after the managers took a fee, they wouldn't get any additional fees until the fund rose above the "high-water mark" at which the last fee had been paid.


Unfortunately, the fund never generated widespread investor, Sloan writes, growing to only $49 million in assets. Assets of four other Select funds totaled less than $30 million. As a result, fund shareholders approved converting Select I to a conventional fee-plus-expenses structure on Sept. 28.

Read more of Sloan's praise for the fund on the Fortune.


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