Alan Wilson - Growth Fund Fund Manager

CGFEX Fund  USD 68.86  0.24  0.35%   
Alan Wilson is Fund Manager at Growth Fund Of
Frank is Senior Vice President of Capital Research and Management Company. He was an investment professional since 1993 with 20 years at Capital Research and Management or affiliate.
Phone800-421-4225

Alan Wilson Latest Insider Activity

Tracking and analyzing the buying and selling activities of Alan Wilson against Growth Fund mutual fund is an integral part of due diligence when investing in Growth Fund. Alan Wilson insider activity provides valuable insight into whether Growth Fund is net buyers or sellers over its current business cycle. Note, Growth Fund insiders must abide by specific rules, including filing SEC forms every time they buy or sell Growth Fund'sshares to prevent insider trading or benefiting illegally from material non-public information that their positions give them access to.

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The fund invests primarily in common stocks and seeks to invest in companies that appear to offer superior opportunities for growth of capital. Growth Fund is traded on NASDAQ Exchange in the United States. The fund is listed under Large Growth category and is part of American Funds family.

Growth Fund Performance Indicators

The ability to make a profit is the ultimate goal of any investor. But to identify the right mutual fund is not an easy task. Is Growth Fund a good investment? Although profit is still the single most important financial element of any organization, multiple performance indicators can help investors identify the equity that they will appreciate over time.
Some investors attempt to determine whether the market's mood is bullish or bearish by monitoring changes in market sentiment. Unlike more traditional methods such as technical analysis, investor sentiment usually refers to the aggregate attitude towards Growth Fund in the overall investment community. So, suppose investors can accurately measure the market's sentiment. In that case, they can use it for their benefit. For example, some tools to gauge market sentiment could be utilized using contrarian indexes, Growth Fund's short interest history, or implied volatility extrapolated from Growth Fund options trading.

Pair Trading with Growth Fund

One of the main advantages of trading using pair correlations is that every trade hedges away some risk. Because there are two separate transactions required, even if Growth Fund position performs unexpectedly, the other equity can make up some of the losses. Pair trading also minimizes risk from directional movements in the market. For example, if an entire industry or sector drops because of unexpected headlines, the short position in Growth Fund will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.

Moving together with Growth Mutual Fund

  0.79REJTX American Funds 2015PairCorr
  0.92AMFCX American Mutual FundPairCorr
  0.96AMFFX American Mutual FundPairCorr
  0.83RNCCX American Funds IncomePairCorr

Moving against Growth Mutual Fund

  0.64RGVAX Us Government SecuritiesPairCorr
  0.61RGVEX Us Government SecuritiesPairCorr
  0.58USGFX Us Government SecuritiesPairCorr
  0.45FIBLX American Funds InflationPairCorr
The ability to find closely correlated positions to Growth Fund could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace Growth Fund when you sell it. If you don't do this, your portfolio allocation will be skewed against your target asset allocation. So, investors can't just sell and buy back Growth Fund - that would be a violation of the tax code under the "wash sale" rule, and this is why you need to find a similar enough asset and use the proceeds from selling Growth Fund Of to buy it.
The correlation of Growth Fund 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 perfect positive correlation (i.e., a correlation coefficient of +1) implies that as Growth Fund moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if Growth Fund moves in either direction, the perfectly negatively correlated security will move in the opposite direction. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak.
Correlation analysis and pair trading evaluation for Growth Fund can also be used as hedging techniques within a particular sector or industry or even over random equities to generate a better risk-adjusted return on your portfolios.
Pair CorrelationCorrelation Matching
Check out Trending Equities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Growth Fund Of. Also, note that the market value of any mutual fund could be tightly coupled with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in income.
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Please note, there is a significant difference between Growth Fund's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if Growth Fund is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, Growth Fund's price is the amount at which it trades on the open market and represents the number that a seller and buyer find agreeable to each party.