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Hi, and welcome to the Longview. I'm Dan Lefkowitz, strategist for Morningstar Indexes.

And I'm Christine Ben's director of personal finance and retirement planning for Morning Star.

Our guest this week is Charlie Dreyfus. Charlie is portfolio manager of the Royce Special Equity Funds,

highly regarded by Morningstar's manager research team. Charlie was named Fund Manager of the Year by Morningstar in 2008

for his work on the small

cap value U.S. equity strategy, which he began running in 1998 after portfolio management

stints at Lazzard and Oppenheimer.

Charlie's investment career began in 1968.

He holds degrees from City College of New York and Baruch College.

Charlie, thanks so much for joining us in the Longview.

My pleasure.

So it's not every day that we talk to an investor with 56 years of official experience.

So it'd be great to hear a little bit about your upbringing and how you got your start as an

investor and about the academic training that shaped you.

Great.

Well, stop me if I keep talking too much.

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