American Funds Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between American Funds Government and Vanguard Total Stock is 0.05 (i.e., Significant 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

Average diversification

The correlation between American Funds Government and DJI is 0.17 (i.e., Average diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding American Funds Government and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Your Equity Center to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in American Funds Government. Also, note that the market value of any money market fund could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in interest.

Moving together with American Money Market Fund

  0.76VTSAX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.76VFIAX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.76VFINX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.65AA Alcoa CorpPairCorr
  0.76CSCO Cisco Systems Sell-off TrendPairCorr
  0.72IBM International Business Earnings Call TodayPairCorr
  0.82DIS Walt DisneyPairCorr
  0.69CAT CaterpillarPairCorr
  0.75BA Boeing Earnings Call This WeekPairCorr
  0.83MSFT Microsoft Earnings Call This WeekPairCorr

Moving against American Money Market Fund

  0.53KO Coca ColaPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between American Money Market Fund performing well and American Funds Money Market 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.
Mean DeviationJensen AlphaSortino RatioTreynor RatioSemi DeviationExpected ShortfallPotential UpsideValue @RiskMaximum Drawdown
VTSAX  0.66  0.26  0.07 (2.81) 0.54 
 2.07 
 5.05 
VFIAX  0.61  0.12  0.13  0.31  0.34 
 2.02 
 4.88 
VTSMX  0.57  0.28  0.14 (2.17) 0.07 
 1.56 
 5.04 
VITSX  0.56  0.15  0.13  0.41  0.00 
 1.56 
 5.05 
VSTSX  0.57  0.28  0.14 (2.18) 0.05 
 1.56 
 5.04 
VSMPX  0.57  0.28  0.14 (2.18) 0.06 
 1.56 
 5.04 
VFINX  0.62  0.13  0.12  0.32  0.32 
 2.02 
 4.88 
VFFSX  0.55  0.28  0.14 (2.28) 0.00 
 1.48 
 4.88 
VGTSX  0.44  0.18  0.01 (4.71) 0.28 
 1.06 
 3.09 
VTIAX  0.44  0.18  0.01 (4.48) 0.26 
 1.07 
 3.10