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Throughout our history, we've weathered past storms. In fact, our equity-focused funds have outpaced their benchmark indexes during the biggest downturns of the last nine decades.

Across 17 bear markets, the equity-focused American Funds outpaced their benchmarks 77% of the time.

Chart has legend of two squares. Blue square labeled: Fund outpaced benchmark. Raspberry square labeled: Fund lagged benchmark. The chart tracks performance of 20 equity-focused American Funds through bear markets since each fund's inception. There are a total of 13 bear-market periods shown on the chart, with fund performance listed by the age of each fund. During the 3/6/1937—4/28/1942 bear market, The Investment Company of America outpaced its benchmark, but it lagged its benchmark during the 5/29/1946—6/13/1949 bear market. During the 8/2/1956—10/22/1957 bear market, The Investment Company of America, American Mutual Fund and Washington Mutual Investors Fund outpaced their benchmarks. During the 12/12/1961—6/26/1962 bear market, American Mutual Fund and Washington Mutual Investors Fund outpaced their benchmarks, while The Investment Company of America lagged its benchmark. During the 2/9/1966—10/7/1966 bear market, all three of the aforementioned funds outpaced their benchmarks. During the 11/29/1968—5/26/1970 bear market, American Mutual Fund and Washington Mutual Investors Fund outpaced their benchmarks, while The Investment Company of America and AMCAP Fund lagged their benchmarks. During the 1/11/1973—10/3/1974 bear market, The Investment Company of America, American Mutual Fund and Washington Mutual Investors Fund outpaced their benchmarks, while AMCAP Fund lagged its benchmark. During the 11/28/1980—8/12/1982 bear market, The Investment Company of America, American Mutual Fund, Washington Mutual Investors Fund, AMCAP Fund, The Growth Fund of America, The Income Fund of America, New Perspective Fund, Fundamental Investors and American Balanced Fund outpaced their benchmarks. During the 8/25/1987—12/4/1987 bear market, The Investment Company of America, American Mutual Fund, Washington Mutual Investors Fund, AMCAP Fund, The Growth Fund of America, The Income Fund of America, Fundamental Investors, American Balanced Fund, Capital Income Builder and The New Economy Fund outpaced their benchmarks, while New Perspective Fund and EuroPacific Growth Fund lagged their benchmarks. During the 3/24/2000—10/9/2002 bear market, The Investment Company of America, American Mutual Fund, Washington Mutual Investors Fund, AMCAP Fund, The Growth Fund of America, The Income Fund of America, New Perspective Fund, Fundamental Investors, American Balanced Fund, Capital Income Builder, EuroPacific Growth Fund, Capital World Growth & Income Fund and New World Fund outpaced their benchmarks, while The New Economy Fund and SMALLCAP World Fund lagged their benchmarks. During the 10/9/2007—3/9/2009 bear market, The Investment Company of America, American Mutual Fund, Washington Mutual Investors Fund, AMCAP Fund, The Growth Fund of America, New Perspective Fund, Fundamental Investors, The New Economy Fund, EuroPacific Growth Fund, Capital World Growth & Income Fund and New World Fund outpaced their benchmarks, while The Income Fund of America, American Balanced Fund, Capital Income Builder and SMALLCAP World Fund lagged their benchmarks. During the 2/19/2020—3/23/2020 bear market, The Investment Company of America, American Mutual Fund, AMCAP Fund, The Growth Fund of America, New Perspective Fund, The New Economy Fund, EuroPacific Growth Fund, Capital World Growth & Income Fund, SMALLCAP World Fund, New World Fund, American Funds Global Insight Fund and American Funds International Vantage Fund outpaced their benchmarks, while Washington Mutual Investors Fund, The Income Fund of America, Fundamental Investors, American Balanced Fund, Capital Income Builder, International Growth and Income Fund, American Funds Global Balanced Fund and American Funds Developing World Growth and Income Fund lagged their benchmarks. During the 01/03/2022—10/12/2022 bear market, American Mutual Fund, Washington Mutual Investors Fund, The Income Fund of America, American Balanced Fund, Capital Income Builder, American Funds Global Balanced Fund and American Funds Global Insight Fund outpaced their benchmarks, while The Investment Company of America, AMCAP Fund, The Growth Fund of America, New Perspective Fund, Fundamental Investors, The New Economy Fund, EuroPacific Growth Fund, Capital World Growth & Income Fund, SMALLCAP World Fund, New World Fund,International Growth and Income Fund, American Funds Developing World Growth and American Funds International Vantage Fund lagged their benchmarks.

Experience matters

Throughout our history, we've weathered storms. In fact, our equity-focused funds have outpaced their benchmark indexes during the biggest downturns of the last nine decades.

Across 13 bear markets, the equity-focused American Funds outpaced their benchmarks 69% of the time.

Sources: Capital Group, Morningstar. Class F-2 shares with all distributions reinvested. View fund expense ratios and returns.

Dates shown for bear markets are based on price declines of 20% or more (without dividends reinvested) in the unmanaged S&P 500 with 100% recovery between declines. Funds shown are the equity-focused American Funds in existence at the time of each decline. Fund and benchmark returns are based on total returns. 

Class F-2 shares were first offered on August 1, 2008. Class F-2 share results prior to the date of first sale are hypothetical based on Class A share results without a sales charge, adjusted for estimated annual expenses. The results shown are before taxes on fund distributions and sale of fund shares. Past results are not predictive of results in future periods. Results for other share classes may differ.

Benchmark indexes for the funds: S&P 500 (The Investment Company of America, American Mutual Fund, Washington Mutual Investors Fund, AMCAP Fund, The Growth Fund of America, American Funds Fundamental Investors); MSCI World (New Perspective Fund, Capital World Growth and Income Fund, American Funds Global Insight Fund); 60% S&P 500 / 40% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate (American Balanced Fund); 65% S&P 500 / 35% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate (The Income Fund of America); 70% MSCI ACWI / 30% Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate (Capital Income Builder); S&P 500 prior to the 2020 bear market, MSCI ACWI thereafter (The New Economy Fund); MSCI EAFE prior to the 2007-09 bear market, MSCI ACWI ex USA thereafter (EuroPacific Growth Fund); MSCI All Country World Small Cap (SMALLCAP World Fund); MSCI ACWI (New World Fund); MSCI ACWI ex USA (International Growth and Income Fund), 60% MSCI ACWI / 40% Bloomberg Global Aggregate (American Funds Global Balanced Fund); MSCI Emerging Markets (American Funds Developing World Growth and Income Fund); MSCI EAFE (American Funds International Vantage Fund).

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