But growth-and-income funds, the most conservative of the large groups, took in a record $4 billion.

When it comes to growth-and-income mutual funds, not much.

Similarly, growth-and-income funds tend to hold up better than growth-only portfolios.

They focus more on the income side of the equation than growth-and-income funds and that shows up in their yields.

The income also helps growth-and-income funds' total return, as the earnings compound over time.

Not surprisingly, growth-and-income funds are the most popular type of stock funds.

Still, he is not running a typical growth-and-income fund.

That exceeded the flows to the more conservative growth-and-income funds for the first time since January.

On average, growth-and-income funds sport market capitalizations of $7.8 billion.

More impressive, Vista was the only growth-and-income fund in the year's top 25 performers.