American Funds Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between American Funds Developing and Ab Bond Inflation is -0.05 (i.e., Good diversification). The correlation of American Funds is a statistical measure of how it moves in relation to other instruments. This measure is expressed in what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random.

American Funds Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between American Funds Developing and DJI is 0.78 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding American Funds Developing and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Trending Equities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in American Funds Developing. Also, note that the market value of any mutual fund could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in income.

Moving together with American Mutual Fund

  0.96AMECX Income FundPairCorr
  0.98RNEBX New World FundPairCorr
  0.95AMFCX American MutualPairCorr
  0.95AMFFX American MutualPairCorr
  0.99RNCCX American Funds IncomePairCorr
  0.7FPPPX American Funds PresePairCorr
  0.97RNGGX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.98RNGFX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.97RNGHX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.98RNGBX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.98RNGAX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.98RNGEX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.98RNGCX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.97FPTPX American Funds ConsePairCorr
  0.98RNNEX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.98CDJAX American Funds CollegePairCorr
  0.98AMPCX Amcap Fund ClassPairCorr
  0.99RNPBX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.99RNPAX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.98RNPHX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.99RNPEX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.95AMRMX American MutualPairCorr
  0.97AMRFX American MutualPairCorr
  1.0RNWFX New World FundPairCorr
  1.0RNWGX New World FundPairCorr
  1.0RNWCX New World FundPairCorr
  1.0CDWCX American Funds DevelopingPairCorr
  0.96ANCFX American Funds FundaPairCorr
  0.98ANFFX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.99NPFCX New PerspectivePairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between American Mutual Fund performing well and American Funds Mutual Fund doing well as a business compared to the competition. There are so many exceptions to the norm that investors cannot definitively determine what's good or bad unless they analyze American Funds' multiple risk-adjusted performance indicators across the competitive landscape. These indicators are quantitative in nature and help investors forecast volatility and risk-adjusted expected returns across various positions.