Making Headlines

“The rough riding on Wall Street has the folks at Royce Value Plus [Fund] rubbing their hands in delight,” reports J.R. Brandstrader in Barron’s Chip Skinner and Whitney George prefer clean balance sheets and high returns on capital, and are taking advantage of the “market’s misery by snapping up high-quality stocks” at a discount for Royce Value Plus Fund (RYVPX). Writes Brandstrader, “Skinner agrees with Chuck Royce that we are in a ‘low return’ period for equity markets…. but that’s not going to stop him from checking the ditches – for fun and profit.”