Capital World Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Capital World Growth and American Funds Capital is -0.08 (i.e., Good diversification). The correlation of Capital World 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.

Capital World Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between Capital World Growth and DJI is 0.71 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Capital World Growth 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 Capital World Growth. 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 gross domestic product.

Moving together with Capital Mutual Fund

  0.85AMECX Income FundPairCorr
  0.81RNEBX New World FundPairCorr
  0.82AMFCX American MutualPairCorr
  0.82AMFFX American MutualPairCorr
  0.83RNCCX American Funds IncomePairCorr
  0.92AMEFX Income FundPairCorr
  0.8RNGGX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.88RNGFX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.81RNGHX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.88RNGBX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.81RNGAX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.88RNGEX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.88RNGCX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.84FPTPX American Funds ConsePairCorr
  0.81RNNEX New Economy FundPairCorr
  0.88CDJAX American Funds CollegePairCorr
  0.86AMPCX Amcap Fund ClassPairCorr
  0.86AMPFX Amcap Fund ClassPairCorr
  0.89RNPBX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.89RNPAX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.99RNPHX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.99RNPGX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.89RNPCX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.99RNPFX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.89RNPEX New PerspectivePairCorr
  0.9AMRMX American MutualPairCorr
  0.81AMRFX American MutualPairCorr
  0.86RNRPX American Funds RetirementPairCorr
  0.82RNWFX New World FundPairCorr

Moving against Capital Mutual Fund

  0.37AMUSX Us Government SecuritiesPairCorr
  0.32ANBEX American Funds StrategicPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Capital Mutual Fund performing well and Capital World 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 Capital World's 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.