James Lovelace - American Funds Fund Manager

CTSEX Fund  USD 11.72  0.04  0.34%   
James Lovelace is Fund Manager at American Funds Lege
James B. Lovelace is an equity portfolio manager at Capital Group. He has 34 years of investment experience, all with Capital. As an equity investment analyst at Capital, Jim covered beverages tobacco, restaurants lodging, household products and personal care companies. He holds a bachelors degree with honors in philosophy from Swarthmore College. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the Los Angeles Society of Financial Analysts. Jim is based in Los Angeles.
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The adviser will increasingly emphasize income and preservation of capital by investing a greater portion of its assets in fixed income, equity-income and balanced funds as it approaches and passes its target date. American Funds is traded on NASDAQ Exchange in the United States. The fund is listed under Allocation--30% to 50% Equity category and is part of American Funds family.

American Funds Lege Leadership Team

Elected by the shareholders, the American Funds' board of directors comprises two types of representatives: American Funds inside directors who are chosen from within the company, and outside directors, selected externally and held independent of American. The board's role is to monitor American Funds' management team and ensure that shareholders' interests are well served. American Funds' inside directors are responsible for reviewing and approving budgets prepared by upper management to implement core corporate initiatives and projects. On the other hand, American Funds' outside directors are responsible for providing unbiased perspectives on the board's policies.
James Lovelace, Fund Manager
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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 Funds 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 American Funds 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, American Funds' short interest history, or implied volatility extrapolated from American Funds options trading.

Pair Trading with American Funds

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

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The ability to find closely correlated positions to American Funds 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 Funds 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 Funds - 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 Funds Lege to buy it.
The correlation of American Funds 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 Funds moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if American Funds Lege 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 Funds 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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