American Funds Correlations

CIVKX Fund  USD 16.52  0.01  0.06%   
The current 90-days correlation between American Funds Inter and Moderate Balanced Allocation is 0.54 (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 International and DJI is 0.16 (i.e., Average diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding American Funds International and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Trending Equities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in American Funds International. 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 industry.

Moving together with American Mutual Fund

  0.94RNEBX New World FundPairCorr
  0.74AMFCX American MutualPairCorr
  0.74AMFFX American MutualPairCorr
  0.77RNCCX American Funds IncomePairCorr
  0.71RNGFX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.72RNGAX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.75FPTPX American Funds ConsePairCorr
  0.72RNNEX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.62AMPCX Amcap Fund ClassPairCorr
  0.72RNPAX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.7RNPGX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.7RNPFX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.71RNPEX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.73AMRMX American MutualPairCorr
  0.73AMRFX American MutualPairCorr
  0.86AMUSX Us Government SecuritiesPairCorr
  0.94RNWGX New World FundPairCorr
  0.94CDWEX American Funds DevelopingPairCorr
  0.65ANCFX American Funds FundaPairCorr
  0.73ANFCX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.72NPFCX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.71NPFFX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.66CENEX American Funds LegePairCorr
  0.64CENFX American Funds LegePairCorr
  0.62PGGFX American Funds GlobalPairCorr
  0.7ANWPX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.71BALFX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.72BALCX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.81CWGIX Capital World GrowthPairCorr
  0.81CWGFX Capital World GrowthPairCorr
  0.82CWGCX Capital World GrowthPairCorr
  0.92CEUCX Europacific GrowthPairCorr
  0.92CEUAX Europacific GrowthPairCorr

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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.