American Funds Correlations

FGFWX Fund  USD 13.93  0.07  0.51%   
The current 90-days correlation between American Funds Retirement and Income Fund Of is 0.74 (i.e., Poor 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 Retirement and DJI is 0.37 (i.e., Weak 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

  0.66AMECX Income FundPairCorr
  0.77RNCCX American Funds IncomePairCorr
  0.64RNGGX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.67RNGFX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.73RNGHX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.71RNGAX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.73RNGEX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.72RNGCX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.64TEBCX Tax Exempt BondPairCorr
  0.63TECCX Tax Exempt FundPairCorr
  0.63TEAFX Tax Exempt BondPairCorr
  0.8FPTPX American Funds ConsePairCorr
  0.61TEFEX Tax Exempt FundPairCorr
  0.72RNNEX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.73CDJAX American Funds CollegePairCorr
  0.75AMPCX Amcap Fund ClassPairCorr
  0.76AMPFX Amcap Fund ClassPairCorr
  0.66RNPBX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.66RNPAX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.66RNPHX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.66RNPCX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.66RNPFX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.66RNPEX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.71AMRFX American MutualPairCorr
  0.83RNRPX American Funds RetirementPairCorr
  0.69AMUSX Us Government SecuritiesPairCorr
  0.71TEPCX American Funds TaxPairCorr

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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 (0.05) 0.00 (0.19) 0.00 
 0.67 
 3.18 
RNEBX  0.56 (0.13) 0.00 (0.68) 0.00 
 0.79 
 4.01 
AMFCX  0.53 (0.11) 0.00 (0.18) 0.00 
 0.90 
 6.56 
AMFFX  0.53 (0.12) 0.00 (0.21) 0.00 
 0.91 
 6.50 
RNCCX  0.30 (0.04) 0.00 (0.17) 0.00 
 0.52 
 2.16 
FPPPX  0.10 (0.01)(0.15)(0.29) 0.09 
 0.21 
 0.75 
AMEFX  0.40 (0.07) 0.00 (0.28) 0.00 
 0.72 
 3.15 
RNGGX  0.91 (0.13) 0.00 (0.15) 0.00 
 1.44 
 10.95 
RNGFX  0.91 (0.11) 0.00 (0.12) 0.00 
 1.43 
 10.94 
RNGHX  0.89 (0.10) 0.00  2.77  0.00 
 1.44 
 11.07