Bull and Bear Served at Fund Manager Dinner

Stock quotes in this article: MSFT , PG , JNJ , CSCO , WMT , BRKA , PEP , GOOG  

Grantham, in response, questioned some of the data but didn't dispute the point completely. Stay tuned.

Meanwhile, the pair agreed on one thing. Large company "growth" stocks, they both said, are now much, much better value than the smaller company and "value" stocks everyone has been buying for the last seven years.

For these two to agree on anything is an event. If the past is any guide, it usually means they're right.

That would seem to be a good case for State Street's Large Cap Growth (ELG Quote) exchange-traded fund, which you can buy and sell like an ordinary stock. It closed Monday at $54.07 and has a 1.05% yield.

The ETF holds a basket of the biggest "growth" stocks. Top holdings are Microsoft(MSFT Quote), Procter & Gamble (PG Quote), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ Quote), Cisco(CSCO Quote), Wal-Mart (WMT Quote), Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA Quote), Pepsi(PEP Quote), Google(GOOG Quote), Time Warner (TWX Quote) and Comcast(CMCSA Quote).

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In keeping with TSC's editorial policy, Brett Arends doesn't own or short individual stocks. He also doesn't invest in hedge funds or other private investment partnerships. Arends takes a critical look inside mutual funds and the personal finance industry in a twice-weekly column that ranges from investment advice for the general reader to the industry's latest scoop. Prior to joining TheStreet.com in 2006, he worked for more than two years at the Boston Herald, where he revived the paper's well-known 'On State Street' finance column and was part of a team that won two SABEW awards in 2005. He had previously written for the Daily Telegraph and Daily Mail newspapers in London, the magazine Private Eye, and for Global Agenda, the official magazine of the World Economic Summit in Davos, Switzerland. Arends has also written a book on sports 'futures' betting.

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