AMCAP Fund®
- Vehicle
- Mutual Fund
- Objective
- Growth
Products
Our equity investment offerings can help your clients pursue their investment goals. The ongoing, rigorous investment analysis of The Capital SystemTM helps distinguish them from their peers.
Capital Group American Funds® equity-focused mutual funds have outpaced their benchmarks over their respective lifetimes during most 20-year rolling periods, on average¹:
"The Capital System was not designed for easy markets. It was designed for markets like this one."
Martin Romo
Chair and chief investment officer
A long-term view
Collaborative research
Diverse perspectives
We can maintain a long-term view and do what we think is best for investors.2
Portfolio managers invest alongside their shareholders to focus on long-term outcomes.3
An evolving product suite of mutual funds, ETFs and SMAs, along with new public-private strategies.
Our assets total more than $3 trillion, making Capital Group the largest active U.S. fund manager4.
Our equity-focused mutual fund and ETF expenses are among the lowest in the industry.5
Perspectives
EQUITIES
Notes and insights on investing from our equity professionals.
The right combination of investment professionals, working together in the right way. See what sets our investment process apart.
Footnotes/lmportant information:
1Source: Capital Group. As of 12/31/25. Calculations cover the time frame from January 1934 through December 2025 and are based on rolling monthly 20-year periods over each of the existing funds' respective lifetimes for Class F-2 shares at net asset value.
2Compensation paid to our investment professionals is heavily influenced by results over 1-, 3-, 5- and 8-year periods, with increasing weight placed on each succeeding measurement period to encourage a long-term investment approach.
3Source: Morningstar. As of 2/18/26. Ninety-four percent of American Funds assets are invested in mutual funds in which at least one manager has invested more than $1 million.
4Assets under management claim based on preliminary Capital Group data as of 6/30/26. Largest U.S. mutual fund manager information based on Morningstar data on open-ended mutual fund assets (excluding fund of funds) as of 6/30/26.
⁵Sources: Capital Group, Morningstar. As of 6/30/26. Based on the prospectus expense ratio for ETFs and their peer category, and the Morningstar Fee-Level Group — Distribution peers median and prospectus expense ratio for American Funds Class F-2 mutual funds.
Past results are not predictive of results in future periods. There have been periods when the funds have lagged their indexes.
Capital Group manages equity assets through three investment groups. These groups make investment and proxy voting decisions independently. Fixed income investment professionals provide fixed income research and investment management across the Capital organization; however, for securities with equity characteristics, they act solely on behalf of one of the three equity investment groups.