Large-cap value funds, meanwhile, rose 0.2%, slightly outperforming a 2% drop for large-cap growth funds.
Health care funds and large-growth funds are also down 5% for the year, according to Morningstar.
Keep your core portfolio constant but be prepared to actively trade the growth funds as conditions change.
Regardless, our August ranks indicated that some growth funds and ETFs were doing noticeably better than others.
Advisors, says Apple's growth is why the stock is the largest in his two international growth funds.
This would be less likely to occur if there was a larger offering of international growth funds available.
They own Baidu in two of their international and emerging market growth funds.
Such funds have however gone out of favor this year while large cap growth funds have emerged as leaders.
And Weisel has recently poached leading managers of high-tech growth funds at Fidelity Investments, Wellington Management and John Hancock Funds.
Unlike Janus and other growth funds, American Century analysts aren't given a chance to fall in love with hot stocks.
Veolia Environnement, a holding of Chung's Alger LargeCap Growth and MidCap Growth funds, consults for, builds and manages water utilities.
Leadership has been mostly value funds with a small-mid bias, but a few growth funds land among the current top performers.
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This last month provided an illustration: growth funds rose up our near-term performance-based ranks, but not all growth funds were leading.
The growth funds will slowly transfer their shares to the value funds.
So why are investors flocking to a fund whose total annual costs of 8.51% are the highest out of 357 small-cap growth funds?
For the last three years, value funds have ruled the roost, though growth funds showed renewed strength in the fourth quarter of last year.
If growth continues to do well, these recently lagging growth funds may eventually rise up the ranks and earn a place in our portfolios.
The fund placed 501st out of Lipper's 506 multicap growth funds.
Year-to-date, growth funds are down 23.8% and value is down 14.8%.
After all, money flows into tech and growth funds peaked in the first quarter of 2000--just in time for the Nasdaq to begin a three-year, 70% slide.
According to data from Morningstar and Lipper , over the last three years growth funds have lost an average of 12.4% a year, while value funds lost only 0.54% a year.
Right now, leading funds are predominantly U.S. growth funds.
Small caps, too, have continued to be market leaders, although large-cap growth funds began to find their footing in the fourth quarter of 2005 and give small caps a run for their money.
The big New York financial houses don't seem to care, say critics, as long as the money rolls in -- and the Asia growth funds that hold Chinese state firms are among the higher performers in the market.
In fact, from 1937 through 1967, growth mutual funds rather consistently trumped value mutual funds.
Small-cap value, small-cap growth, mid-cap value, and mid-cap growth mutual funds were each down about 3%, according to Morningstar.
The rapid stock decline was largely driven by selling by growth mutual funds that are now almost completely divested of the stock.
The best performing early-stage funds always do better than the best performing growth-stage funds because they get in earlier at lower valuations.
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