American Funds Correlations

INPEX Fund  USD 14.70  0.03  0.20%   
The current 90-days correlation between American Funds Income and Ivy Science And is 0.16 (i.e., Average 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

Almost no diversification

The correlation between American Funds Income and DJI is 0.9 (i.e., Almost no diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding American Funds Income and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Risk vs Return Analysis to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in American Funds Income. 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 discontinued.

Moving together with American Mutual Fund

  0.86WRGCX Ivy Small CapPairCorr
  0.89WRHIX Ivy High IncomePairCorr
  0.86WSCYX Ivy Small CapPairCorr
  0.96IMEGX Ivy Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.83WSGRX Ivy Small CapPairCorr
  0.87WASCX Ivy Asset StrategyPairCorr
  0.88WASYX Ivy Asset StrategyPairCorr
  0.77WSTRX Ivy Science AndPairCorr
  0.8WSTYX Ivy Science AndPairCorr
  0.81WSTCX Ivy Science AndPairCorr
  0.96INRSX Ivy Natural ResourcesPairCorr
  0.8WTRCX Ivy E EquityPairCorr
  0.83WCEYX Ivy E EquityPairCorr
  0.96IPOYX Ivy Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.95IPOCX Ivy Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.96IPOIX Ivy Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.82IREIX Ivy Advantus RealPairCorr
  0.87IRGFX Ivy Small CapPairCorr
  0.82IRSRX Ivy Advantus RealPairCorr
  0.82IRSYX Ivy Advantus RealPairCorr
  0.82IRSCX Ivy Advantus RealPairCorr
  0.82IRSEX Ivy Advantus RealPairCorr
  0.89IASTX Ivy Asset StrategyPairCorr
  0.88IASRX Ivy Asset StrategyPairCorr
  0.92ISPVX Ivy Small CapPairCorr
  0.87IBARX Ivy BalancedPairCorr
  0.82ISTIX Ivy Science AndPairCorr
  0.82ISTNX Ivy Science AndPairCorr
  0.91WHIYX Ivy High IncomePairCorr
  0.87IBNYX Ivy BalancedPairCorr
  0.86IBNCX Ivy BalancedPairCorr
  0.87ITGRX Ivy Global GrowthPairCorr
  0.89ICEIX Ivy InternationalPairCorr
  0.83ICEQX Ivy E EquityPairCorr
  0.83ICIEX Ivy E EquityPairCorr
  0.67IVBDX Ivy Global BondPairCorr
  0.88IVAEX Ivy Asset StrategyPairCorr
  0.96IVEIX Ivy Energy FundPairCorr

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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
ILGRX  0.81 (0.09) 0.00 (0.06) 0.00 
 1.19 
 11.60 
WRGCX  1.10  0.19  0.16  0.26  0.92 
 2.29 
 12.08 
WRHIX  0.14  0.00 (0.25) 0.10  0.09 
 0.34 
 1.37 
WSCYX  1.10  0.19  0.16  0.26  0.91 
 2.29 
 12.02 
IMEGX  0.77  0.29  0.25  0.89  0.50 
 1.91 
 10.45 
WSGRX  1.34  0.40  0.32  0.56  0.77 
 2.29 
 24.85 
WASCX  0.59  0.19  0.22  0.51  0.27 
 0.97 
 11.68 
WASYX  0.57  0.17  0.19  0.45  0.30 
 0.92 
 10.25 
WSTRX  1.63  0.36  0.19  0.34  1.44 
 2.93 
 31.82 
WSTYX  1.46  0.22  0.12  0.24  1.61 
 2.92 
 21.78