The Best 5-Star American Mutual Funds

Bad News for American Funds Investors

American is a giant fund company, but they offer little choice to their investors.

View the charts of their best performing funds. The lines all look alike. They top and bottom at the same time.

There are many good nonAmerican 5-Star funds for your new money. Avoid American's heavy loads and get diversification, increased return, and less risk  with  Exchange Traded (ETF) alternatives.

Detailed comparisons of other fund companies to American shows that  Franklin,  Vanguard, Fidelity, TRPrice, among many other fund families, have more diverse funds.

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American Funds Bottom Line

If you invest primarily in American Funds, keep your account open and don't transfer to another fund company . . . since you've already paid American's load fees. The red line shows the impact of rebalancing 4 times/year into the best American Equity funds. When rebalancing, there are no additional load fees.

For new money,  consider diversifying to other fund families for any new money. FastTrack help you to determine which families. Prime candidates would be Fidelity, Vanguard, and T. R. Price.

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