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The Quarterly Report for our closed-end funds, Royce Focus Trust, Royce Micro-Cap Trust and Royce Value Trust, contains performance and other portfolio information highlights for each fund, as well as our letter to stockholders.
"The market's shift to quality may have already begun. The move seems overdue, perhaps because our initial expectation was that the financial crisis would make investors far more discriminating and wary of risk. However, the rally that began in March 2009 was dominated by lower-quality, higher-risk stocks, especially in its early stages. More recently, however, we have been seeing more and more quality businesses enjoy the kind of interest from investors that we began to anticipate two years ago.
We remain optimistic about the long-term prospects for equities, expecting longer-term average annual returns to fall in the upper single to low double digits, at least for the decade as a whole. Small-cap stocks should fully participate, even in what we anticipate will be a highly cyclical market characterized by frequent rotations in leadership. We also think that investors will continue to move back to equities, which would obviously help to boost returns."
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The thoughts concerning recent market movements and future prospects for small-company stocks are solely those of Royce & Associates and, of course, there can be no assurance with regard to future market movements. Small-cap and micro-cap stocks may involve considerably more risk than larger-cap stocks. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
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