American Funds Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between American Funds Income and Wealthbuilder Moderate Balanced is 0.93 (i.e., Almost no 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 Income and DJI is 0.12 (i.e., Average diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding American Funds Income 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 Income. 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 main economic indicators.

Moving together with American Mutual Fund

  0.96VWINX Vanguard Wellesley IncomePairCorr
  0.96VWIAX Vanguard Wellesley IncomePairCorr
  0.98BKMIX Blackrock Multi AssetPairCorr
  0.97HBLTX Hartford BalancedPairCorr
  0.97HBLRX Hartford BalancedPairCorr
  0.97HBLSX Hartford BalancedPairCorr
  0.97HBLVX Hartford BalancedPairCorr
  0.97HBLYX Hartford BalancedPairCorr
  0.97HBLCX Hartford BalancedPairCorr
  0.97HBLIX Hartford BalancedPairCorr
  0.91PFN Pimco Income StrategyPairCorr
  0.72XDSMX Dreyfus StrategicPairCorr
  0.95CIF Mfs Intermediate HighPairCorr
  0.7XNXJX Nuveen New JerseyPairCorr
  0.77NXJ Nuveen New JerseyPairCorr
  0.95XPPRX Voya Prime RatePairCorr
  0.89PCF Putnam High IncomePairCorr
  0.74XNBHX Neuberger Berman IntPairCorr
  0.91GE GE AerospacePairCorr
  0.87MMM 3M CompanyPairCorr
  0.72JPM JPMorgan ChasePairCorr
  0.78CAT CaterpillarPairCorr
  0.72AXP American ExpressPairCorr
  0.76AA Alcoa Corp Earnings Call This WeekPairCorr
  0.85BAC Bank of AmericaPairCorr
  0.83DIS Walt Disney Earnings Call TomorrowPairCorr
  0.72IBM International BusinessPairCorr
  0.78PFE Pfizer IncPairCorr

Moving against American Mutual Fund

  0.31KO Coca ColaPairCorr

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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.