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The Big Screen: Big-Cap Growth Funds

 

Big-cap growth funds might be tarnished by their sooty and beloved tech stocks, but there are still gems in this bin.

Screen Gems:
High Returns, Low Fees
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Small-Cap Growth Funds
Mid-Cap Growth Funds
Large-Cap Growth Funds
Tech Funds

Big-cap growth funds typically focus on stocks of companies that have market capitalizations marketcapitalization of more than $10 billion and are growing their earnings faster than their peers and the overall market. That often translates to a taste for tech stocks. The average large-cap growth fund had almost 40% of its cash stashed in that sector at the end of last month, compared with a 23.7% tech weighting in the S&P 500, according to Morningstar. These funds rode tech stocks to 33.2% and 40.7% average returns in 1998 and 1999, respectively. ...

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