James Barrow - American Beacon Fund Manager

AVASX Fund  USD 23.29  0.01  0.04%   
James Barrow is Fund Manager at American Beacon Large
During Mr. Barrows 55year investment career, he has worked as a securities analyst and portfolio manager for several major institutions including Citizens Southern Bank of South Carolina, Atlantic Richfield, and Reliance Insurance. In 1973, he joined Republic National Bank of Dallas as a portfolio manager, where he worked with Tim Hanley and John Strauss. He later was placed in charge of the Employee Benefit Portfolio Group and was a member of the Trust Investment Committee until the founding of this firm in 1979. Mr. Barrow graduated from the University of South Carolina with a BS.
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Under normal circumstances, at least 80 percent of the funds net assets are invested in equity securities of large market capitalization U.S. companies. American Beacon is traded on NASDAQ Exchange in the United States. The fund is listed under Large Value category and is part of American Beacon family.

American 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 American Beacon 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.

Pair Trading with American Beacon

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 American Beacon 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 American Beacon will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.

Moving together with American Mutual Fund

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  0.94TFGCX American Beacon FundsPairCorr
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  0.86STSIX American Beacon StephensPairCorr
  1.0AADEX American Beacon LargePairCorr
The ability to find closely correlated positions to American Beacon could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace American Beacon 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 American Beacon - 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 American Beacon Large to buy it.
The correlation of American Beacon 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 American Beacon moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if American Beacon Large 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 American Beacon 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.
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Check out Trending Equities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in American Beacon Large. 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 state.
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Please note, there is a significant difference between American Beacon's value and its price as these two are different measures arrived at by different means. Investors typically determine if American Beacon is a good investment by looking at such factors as earnings, sales, fundamental and technical indicators, competition as well as analyst projections. However, American Beacon'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.