The Junkie's Guide to Growth Funds

Those now-sagging growth funds that once seemed like a great idea are now making you feel like the guy who OK'd New Coke.

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Investors Keep Yanking Money Out of Stock Funds

If today is the first day in the rest of your portfolio's life, let's whittle the ocean of growth funds down to some that might deserve your money.

As their mercurial performance proves, most growth funds loaded up on tech stocks in 1999, where many still stash more than half their money, and rode the frothy sector to fat returns. Those returns led to record inflows, just in time for the tech bubble to pop. ...