The Daily Screen: The Best Large-Cap Blend Funds

It's understandable if you're a little reluctant to buy shares of a stock mutual fund given the market's steady decline. But if you are going to put money in the market, there are worse choices than a large-cap blend fund.

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That's because these funds, as their name implies, typically invest in stocks of big, established companies -- blending the growth and value investment styles. In other words, big-cap growth funds pay high prices for stocks of big companies growing earnings faster than their peers, and big-cap value funds shop for bargains among low-tech parts of the large-cap market. Big-cap blend funds do both. ...