The Big Screen: Small- and Mid-Cap Growth Funds That Earned Their Stripes

Screen Gems

The Cream of the Big-Cap Growth Crop

Funds That Short and How to Use Them

What's In a Fund's Name Anyway

Building a Diversified Portfolio

Cash Isn't King:Fund Managers Don't Cash Out

Like a stooped boxer with eyes smacked shut, growth funds still standing after the past year's drubbing have a brutal beauty.

Let's just say it's been a year to forget for growth managers. At one point in 2000 the average growth fund had some 40% of its money in tech stocks. That was great when these highfliers hit frothy valuations and then kept chugging north. But over the past year the tech-laden Nasdaq Composite is off 40.9% and the average small- and mid-cap growth funds are down 14.8% and 19.8%, respectively, according to Morningstar. ...