American Century Variance
| ACDOX Fund | | | 9.12 -0.08 -0.87% |
Historical market data for American Century Diversified forms the basis of the Variance indicator shown here. Market data gaps can influence the computed indicator values.
Trending Equities provides context for diversified portfolio construction. Additional portfolio transparency improves capital positioning. A position in American Century Diversified is part of the allocation. It is reflected in the overall portfolio structure. Also, note that the market value of any mutual fund could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as various price indices.
American Century Diversified has current Variance of 0.059. Variance is another measure of security risk that shows the amount of dispersion of equity returns around their mean value. Variance is calculated as the average squared deviations from the mean. Evaluating a set of investment alternatives one can use variance to help determine the volatility when purchasing a specific security. Similar to Standard Deviation, the variance is a measure of how far a set of numbers is spread out around its mean.
Variance | = | SUM(RET DEV)2N |
| = | 0.059 | |
| SUM | = | Summation notation |
| RET DEV | = | Actual returns deviation over selected period |
| N | = | Number of points for the period |
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Variance Relative To Other Indicators
American Century Diversified ranks first in variance among similar funds. It is currently under evaluation in maximum drawdown among similar funds reporting about
25.65 of Maximum Drawdown per Variance. At
25.65 , American Century Diversified's Maximum Drawdown-to-Variance multiple reflects the spread between these metrics
Variance is also a measure of stock volatility and can help determine the risk an investor might take on when purchasing a specific security. A relatively big variance indicates that the daily prices or returns are far from the mean and a small variance indicates that they are located around the mean.
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