American Funds Correlations

FAFWX Fund  USD 11.85  0.01  0.08%   
The current 90-days correlation between American Funds Retirement and Income Fund Of is 0.57 (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

Average diversification

The correlation between American Funds Retirement and DJI is 0.19 (i.e., Average diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding American Funds Retirement 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 Retirement. 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 housing.

Moving together with American Mutual Fund

  0.69AMECX Income FundPairCorr
  0.67RNEBX New World FundPairCorr
  0.65AMFCX American MutualPairCorr
  0.65AMFFX American MutualPairCorr
  0.92RNCCX American Funds IncomePairCorr
  0.7FPPPX American Funds PresePairCorr
  0.69AMEFX Income FundPairCorr
  0.65AMHIX American High IncomePairCorr
  0.63TEBCX Tax Exempt BondPairCorr
  0.71TECCX Tax Exempt FundPairCorr
  0.65TEAFX Tax Exempt BondPairCorr
  0.78FPTPX American Funds ConsePairCorr
  0.63TECFX Tax Exempt FundPairCorr
  0.68TEFEX Tax Exempt FundPairCorr
  0.61RNPBX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.61RNPAX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.66AMRMX American MutualPairCorr
  0.64AMRFX American MutualPairCorr
  0.85RNRPX American Funds RetirementPairCorr
  0.87AMUSX Us Government SecuritiesPairCorr
  0.73TEPCX American Funds TaxPairCorr
  0.66TEPAX American Funds TaxPairCorr
  0.67TEPFX American Funds TaxPairCorr
  0.78RNWFX New World FundPairCorr

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Correlation Matchups

Over a given time period, the two securities move together when the Correlation Coefficient is positive. Conversely, the two assets move in opposite directions when the Correlation Coefficient is negative. Determining your positions' relationship to each other is valuable for analyzing and projecting your portfolio's future expected return and risk.
High positive correlations   
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High negative correlations   
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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.
Mean DeviationJensen AlphaSortino RatioTreynor RatioSemi DeviationExpected ShortfallPotential UpsideValue @RiskMaximum Drawdown
AMECX  0.39 (0.09) 0.00 (0.56) 0.00 
 0.66 
 5.01 
RNEBX  0.58 (0.10) 0.00 (0.72) 0.00 
 1.00 
 5.40 
AMFCX  0.51 (0.09) 0.00 (3.06) 0.00 
 0.84 
 6.86 
AMFFX  0.51 (0.09) 0.00 (2.87) 0.00 
 0.83 
 6.99 
RNCCX  0.26 (0.03) 0.00 (0.39) 0.00 
 0.52 
 2.14 
FPPPX  0.12 (0.03) 0.00  2.29  0.00 
 0.21 
 0.75 
AMEFX  0.40 (0.09) 0.00 (0.56) 0.00 
 0.66 
 5.05 
RNGGX  0.84 (0.06) 0.00 (39.36) 0.00 
 1.35 
 11.08 
RNGFX  0.83 (0.09) 0.00 (0.09) 0.00 
 1.35 
 11.00 
RNGHX  0.84  0.00  0.00  0.00  0.00 
 1.34 
 11.07