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American Funds Study Shows Firm’s History of Beating Benchmarks

Sunday, Oct 19 2014

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American Funds has determined that its actively managed funds have outperformed their benchmark in 91% of the rolling 10-year periods occurring between 2013 and the firm’s inception in 1934. So reports ThinkAdvisor.

An investor allocating assets to the firm’s equity funds in 1993, furthermore, would have outperformed a blend of equity indexes over a 20-year period.

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