American Funds Correlations

FPTPX Fund  USD 14.37  0.07  0.49%   
The current 90-days correlation between American Funds Conse and Live Oak Health is 0.42 (i.e., Very weak 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 Conservative and DJI is 0.73 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding American Funds Conservative and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Investing Opportunities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in American Funds Conservative. Also, note that the market value of any mutual fund could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as various price indices.

Moving together with American Mutual Fund

  0.93VWINX Vanguard Wellesley IncomePairCorr
  0.8VWIAX Vanguard Wellesley IncomePairCorr
  0.94BKMIX Blackrock Multi AssetPairCorr
  0.89HBLTX Hartford BalancedPairCorr
  0.87HBLRX Hartford BalancedPairCorr
  0.88HBLSX Hartford BalancedPairCorr
  0.89HBLVX Hartford BalancedPairCorr
  0.89HBLYX Hartford BalancedPairCorr
  0.84HBLCX Hartford BalancedPairCorr
  0.89HBLIX Hartford BalancedPairCorr
  0.63FTCAX Templeton Strained BondPairCorr
  0.79GPICX Guidepath ConservativePairCorr
  0.85GE GE AerospacePairCorr
  0.64WMT WalmartPairCorr
  0.76INTC Intel Aggressive PushPairCorr

Moving against American Mutual Fund

  0.86USPSX Profunds Ultrashort Downward RallyPairCorr
  0.85USPIX Profunds Ultrashort Downward RallyPairCorr
  0.6VZ Verizon CommunicationsPairCorr
  0.57T ATT IncPairCorr
  0.48PG Procter GamblePairCorr
  0.43MCD McDonaldsPairCorr
  0.38BA BoeingPairCorr

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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.