Tracking your investments

These resources can help you monitor your investments — both online and offline.

Your Financial Professional

Your financial professional can show you how to monitor your investments.

Our Website

There are several ways to track the value of your American Funds investments on our website:

  • Investment Tracker – Add funds to a watchlist that’s easily accessible from our homepage.
  • Your Portfolio – This page gives you access to your account information and also allows you to buy, sell or exchange shares and make other transactions.


Account Statements

Your American Funds statement is a primary source of information for your account(s). You can view quarterly statements online by logging in to your account and navigating to the Statements & Tax Forms page.

Phone

You can check your account balances by calling Shareholder Services or our 24-hour automated phone service. Get phone numbers and service hours.

Newspapers

Most daily newspapers publish pages of information about all mutual funds. Here’s how to follow some of the typical jargon: Look for American Funds in the alphabetical listing. Fund listings will be separated by share class. (Class F and C share listings will be available on a fund-by-fund basis once each fund’s assets in each respective share class have reached $10 million.)

In the first column, find the abbreviation for your fund or funds. For example, ICA is The Investment Company of America®; Wsh is Washington Mutual Investors Fund℠.

The second column shows the NAV, the net asset value per share at the close of the previous business day. This is the amount per share you would have received if you had sold shares that day.

The next column is the offering price, the price per share you would pay if you had invested at the maximum sales charge on the previous business day.

There is usually a column showing the change, if any, in net asset value from the previous trading day. Changes, up or down, are caused by changes in the value of the fund’s holdings. The fund’s NAV will also fall the day it pays a dividend.

Money market funds are not listed in the newspaper on a daily basis because they are managed to provide a net asset value of $1.00 per share (which is not guaranteed). However, their yields are listed weekly in many newspapers.

To determine the value of your investment, multiply the value of each share (its NAV) by the number of shares you own.

Remember that if you reinvest dividends and capital gain distributions (as most shareholders do), the number of shares you own keeps increasing.

Investments are not FDIC-insured, nor are they deposits of or guaranteed by a bank or any other entity, so they may lose value.
Investors should carefully consider investment objectives, risks, charges and expenses. This and other important information is contained in the fund prospectuses and summary prospectuses, which can be obtained from a financial professional and should be read carefully before investing.
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