American Funds Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between American Funds Developing and Smallcap World Fund 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

Weak diversification

The correlation between American Funds Developing and DJI is 0.34 (i.e., Weak 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 Your Equity Center 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 price.

Moving together with American Mutual Fund

  0.97RNEBX New World FundPairCorr
  0.68RNCCX American Funds IncomePairCorr
  0.67FPTPX American Funds ConsePairCorr
  0.62RNPBX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.62RNPAX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.69RNPGX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.61RNPCX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.69RNPFX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.61RNPEX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.93RNWFX New World FundPairCorr
  0.93RNWEX New World FundPairCorr

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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.