American Funds Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between American Funds Developing and Pnc International Growth is 0.81 (i.e., Very 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

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Modest diversification

The correlation between American Funds Developing and DJI is 0.25 (i.e., Modest diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding American Funds Developing and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Your Equity Center to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in American Funds Developing. 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 census.

Moving together with AMERICAN Mutual Fund

  0.83VEMAX Vanguard Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.86VEIEX Vanguard Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.86VEMIX Vanguard Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.86VEMRX Vanguard Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.77FWWNX American Funds NewPairCorr
  0.77FNFWX American Funds NewPairCorr
  0.77NEWFX New World FundPairCorr
  0.78NWFFX New World FundPairCorr
  0.74NEWCX New World FundPairCorr
  0.93ODVYX Oppenheimer DevelopingPairCorr
  0.69JNJ Johnson JohnsonPairCorr
  0.65CSCO Cisco SystemsPairCorr
  0.63KO Coca ColaPairCorr
  0.61WMT WalmartPairCorr
  0.75DD Dupont De NemoursPairCorr
  0.71VZ Verizon Communications Aggressive PushPairCorr
  0.67T ATT IncPairCorr
  0.72IBM International BusinessPairCorr
  0.7INTC IntelPairCorr
  0.62MCD McDonaldsPairCorr
  0.63GE GE AerospacePairCorr

Moving against AMERICAN Mutual Fund

  0.58MRK Merck Company Aggressive PushPairCorr

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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.