NEW YORK, May 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Miles Lewis, CFA, is joining Royce Investment
Partners ("Royce") as Portfolio Manager on Royce Total Return and
Dividend Value Funds. Prior to coming to the firm, he was a
portfolio manager (2014-2020) and investment analyst (2010-2014)
for the well-respected Small-Cap Value Fund and Strategy at
American Century Investments.
Mr. Lewis has considerable experience managing with a
value-oriented, high-quality approach to small-cap investing, one
that is similar to the discipline used in the dividend-paying
strategies he will help to manage at Royce.
"We are very excited that Miles is joining Royce, especially
given how well his approach to investing in small-cap stocks aligns
with Chuck's," said Royce's CEO, Chris
Clark. "He is a meaningful and important addition to our
highly experienced investment team. Even during this challenging
time, we are committed to adding talented investors to our
firm."
"I look forward to joining the firm and working with
Chuck Royce, for whom I have
enormous respect," added Mr. Lewis. "As we talked about how we
evaluate companies, in particular the qualitative aspects of
identifying high quality, I saw a great deal of common ground
between our approaches."
Mr. Lewis holds a bachelor's degree in business administration
from The College of William and Mary
and a master's degree in business administration from the Johnson
Graduate School of Management at Cornell
University. He is a CFA® charter holder and a member of the
CFA Institute.
Royce Investment Partners, investment adviser to The Royce
Funds, is a small-cap equity specialist offering portfolios with
distinctive investment approaches to address specific investment
goals. The firm has been managing U.S., global and international,
small-cap strategies for more than 45 years.
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