Mark Brett - Intermediate Bond Fund Manager

CBOEX Fund  USD 12.41  0.01  0.08%   
Mark Brett is Fund Manager at Intermediate Bond Fund
Mark is a fixedincome portfolio manager at Capital Group. As a fixedincome investment analyst, he covers currency research. He has 34 years of investment experience and was with Capital Group for 19 years. Prior to joining Capital, Mark was an economist and strategist with Barclays de Zoete Wedd in London. In addition, he was a director of BZW Capital Markets Ltd. and a member of the London Stock Exchange. Currently, he is a member of the CFA Institute U.K. and is a fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment. Mark is based in London.
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The investment seeks current income consistent with the maturity and quality standards and preservation of capital. Intermediate Bond is traded on NASDAQ Exchange in the United States. The fund is listed under Short-Term Bond category and is part of American Funds family.

Intermediate 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 Intermediate Bond 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 Intermediate Bond 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, Intermediate Bond's short interest history, or implied volatility extrapolated from Intermediate Bond options trading.

Pair Trading with Intermediate Bond

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 Intermediate Bond 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 Intermediate Bond will appreciate offsetting losses from the drop in the long position's value.

Moving against Intermediate Mutual Fund

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The ability to find closely correlated positions to Intermediate Bond could be a great tool in your tax-loss harvesting strategies, allowing investors a quick way to find a similar-enough asset to replace Intermediate Bond 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 Intermediate Bond - 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 Intermediate Bond Fund to buy it.
The correlation of Intermediate Bond 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 Intermediate Bond moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if Intermediate Bond 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 Intermediate Bond 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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Note that the Intermediate Bond Fund information on this page should be used as a complementary analysis to other Intermediate Bond's statistical models used to find the right mix of equity instruments to add to your existing portfolios or create a brand new portfolio. You can also try the Correlation Analysis module to reduce portfolio risk simply by holding instruments which are not perfectly correlated.

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