Growth equity managers make comeback; Value funds lose grip on top performers of most-used funds.(Mutual Funds in DC Plans)

Investment News, November, 2005

Byline: Douglas Appell

BOSTON - Growth equity managers grabbed the limelight away from value managers among the top-performing mutual funds most used in defined contribution plans for the one-year period ended Sept. 30, claiming 14 of the top 25 spots in sister publication Pensions & Investments' latest survey.

For the one-year period ended June 30, value managers had a virtual lock on the winner's circle - only five managers among the top 25 were growth oriented.

But growth managers aren't declaring victory. After five years of underperformance, it's premature to say that growth stocks have turned the corner, said Brian Berghuis, a portfolio manager with Baltimore-based T. Rowe Price Group Inc., whose Mid-Cap Growth Fund had the...

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