AMERICAN FUNDS Variance

BFIFX Fund  USD 9.46  -0.01  -0.11%   
AMERICAN FUNDS variance lookup summarizes this and related technical indicators for American Funds Inflation. Coverage depends on data availability and normalization; Equity Screeners provides additional screening context. Use Trending Equities to better understand diversified portfolio construction. Clearer exposure analysis supports long-term portfolio balance. This includes a position in American Funds Inflation in the portfolio view. 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 price.
  
American Funds Inflation has current Variance of 0.0238. 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)2

N

 = 
0.0238
SUM = Summation notation
RET DEV = Actual returns deviation over selected period
N = Number of points for the period

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AMERICAN Variance Relative To Other Indicators

American Funds Inflation is rated below average in variance among similar funds. It is currently under evaluation in maximum drawdown among similar funds reporting about 26.57 of Maximum Drawdown per Variance. At 26.57 , American Funds Inflation'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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