T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund has been a dominant force among large-cap growth mutual funds. With Larry Puglia at the helm since inception in 1993, the fund is on pace for another year of outperformance. Year-to-date, Blue Chip Growth has returned 11.7% vs. 5.3% for its large-cap growth peers tracked by Morningstar Inc. The fund has topped rival funds by an average of 194 basis points over each of the past 10 years.