American High Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between American High Income and Flexible Bond Portfolio is 0.17 (i.e., Average diversification). The correlation of American High 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 High Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between American High Income and DJI is 0.77 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding American High Income 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 High 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 bureau of labor statistics.

Moving together with American Mutual Fund

  1.0AHTFX American High IncomePairCorr
  0.93AHTCX American High IncomePairCorr
  0.93AHITX American High IncomePairCorr
  0.91BHYCX Blackrock Hi YldPairCorr
  0.79BHYIX Blackrock High YieldPairCorr
  0.98BHYSX Blackrock Hi YldPairCorr
  0.92BHYAX Blackrock High YieldPairCorr
  0.81VWEHX Vanguard High YieldPairCorr
  0.98VWEAX Vanguard High YieldPairCorr
  0.98PHYZX Prudential High YieldPairCorr
  0.85LIIAX Columbia Porate IncomePairCorr
  0.85SRINX Columbia Porate IncomePairCorr
  0.84WRHIX Ivy High IncomePairCorr
  0.79WHIAX Ivy High IncomePairCorr
  0.8IHIFX Ivy High IncomePairCorr
  0.8IVHIX Ivy High IncomePairCorr
  0.83QRSAX Fpa Queens RoadPairCorr
  0.71INTC Intel Aggressive PushPairCorr
  0.82BA Boeing Sell-off TrendPairCorr
  0.63MRK Merck Company Earnings Call This WeekPairCorr
  0.79AA Alcoa CorpPairCorr
  0.71WMT Walmart Common Stock Aggressive PushPairCorr

Moving against American Mutual Fund

  0.54T ATT Inc Earnings Call This WeekPairCorr
  0.37MSFT MicrosoftPairCorr
  0.35VZ Verizon Communications Upward RallyPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between American Mutual Fund performing well and American High 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 High'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.