American Funds Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between American Funds 2065 and Legg Mason Global is 0.52 (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

Good diversification

The correlation between American Funds 2065 and DJI is -0.02 (i.e., Good diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding American Funds 2065 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 2065. 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 estimate.

Moving together with American Mutual Fund

  0.79AMFCX American MutualPairCorr
  0.79AMFFX American MutualPairCorr
  0.63RNGGX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.63RNGFX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.95RNGHX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.94RNGBX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.95RNGEX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.62RNGCX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.62RNNEX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.99CDJAX American Funds CollegePairCorr
  0.63AMPCX Amcap Fund ClassPairCorr
  0.92AMPFX Amcap Fund ClassPairCorr
  0.97RNPBX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.97RNPAX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.97RNPHX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.96RNPGX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.96RNPFX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.97RNPEX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.79AMRMX American MutualPairCorr

Moving against American Mutual Fund

  0.34FPPPX American Funds PresePairCorr
  0.34AMUSX Us Government SecuritiesPairCorr

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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.