Chuck Royce's Top Stock Picks

By Insider Monkey: Royce & Associates was founded by Chuck Royce in 1972. The company employs a value-based approach to look for companies that are underpriced relative to the enterprise value. Royce focuses on small and mid cap companies where stocks are more likely to be mispriced. Most stocks in its portfolio have market capitalizations less than $5 billion.

By Insider Monkey: Ken Heebner co-founded Capital Growth Management in 1990 and has managed it ever since. The fund has grown to over $6 billion, largely because of Heebner’s track record; his Capital Growth Management was the best performing diversified U.S.

By Insider Monkey: Israel Englander has been in the fund management game a long time. He founded his Millennium Management in 1989 and has since made quite the name for himself. Today, Englander is one of the top paid fund managers and his Millennium Management has a portfolio valued at over $11 billion.

By Insider Monkey: SAC Capital was founded in 1992 by the eminent Steven Cohen. Cohen has since grown the fund into one of the largest in the world, making himself one of the world’s richest men, and with good reason.

By Insider Monkey: Zweig-DiMenna Partners was founded by Martin Zweig and Joseph DiMenna in 1984. Since then, DiMenna has been the head portfolio manager of the hedge fund.

By Insider Monkey: When John W. Rogers launched Ariel Investments in 1983, the sole major account he had was Howard University’s endowment fund, $100,000 worth. In only three years, the assets under Ariel’s management grew to $45 million. Now, the fund manages approximately $4 billion in assets.

By Insider Monkey: Leon Cooperman is an experienced hedge fund manager. The once CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management founded the prominent hedge fund Omega Advisors in 1991, after 25 years and has been managing it ever since. Of course, that’s not to say the man is infallible.

By Ganaxi Small Cap Movers: Charles Royce, chief investment officer of New York, NY-based The Royce Funds since 1972, is among the most high profile Mutual Fund managers. With $30 billion in assets under management , the fund specializes in investing in smaller companies, with approximately two-thirds of its assets deployed into small- and micro-cap equities, and most of the remaining one-third in mid-cap equities.