The Daily Screen: The Best Large-Cap Growth Funds

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Large-cap growth funds have cooled off, but they haven't exactly gone cold.

Today the Daily Screen zeroes in on the largest U.S. stock fund category with more than $530 billion -- more than twice the amount of cash invested in S&P 500 index funds. By and large, these funds buy the stocks of big, well-known companies that are growing their earnings at a faster clip than their peers and/or the market.

Big-cap growth funds have ridden an average 40% tech-stock bet to outsize returns in recent years. In 1999, for instance, the average large-cap growth fund posted a 39.8% return, compared to 21% for the S&P 500, according to Morningstar. ...