American Funds Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between American Funds Inflation and Fidelity Advisor Financial is -0.02 (i.e., Good 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

Very weak diversification

The correlation between American Funds Inflation and DJI is 0.47 (i.e., Very weak diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding American Funds Inflation 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 Inflation. 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 bureau of labor statistics.

Moving together with American Mutual Fund

  0.68FPPPX American Funds PresePairCorr
  0.74TEAFX Tax Exempt BondPairCorr
  0.76TEFEX Tax Exempt FundPairCorr
  0.66CDWEX American Funds DevelopingPairCorr
  0.67CDWFX American Funds DevelopingPairCorr
  0.66CDWCX American Funds DevelopingPairCorr
  0.65CDWAX American Funds DevelopingPairCorr
  0.87ANBGX American Funds StrategicPairCorr
  0.86ANBFX American Funds StrategicPairCorr
  0.74TFEBX Tax Exempt BondPairCorr

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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.