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The Capital Advantage®:

Helping Improve Investor Outcomes for Over 85 Years

Our Chairman: Adding Our Voice to the Indexing Dialogue

Think Investors Can't Beat The Index? Think Again

Beating the First Index Fund's Lifetime Results

Outpacing the Market

Our equity-focused funds have consistently added value and have outpaced their indexes the majority of the time.

How Much Can It Matter?

Choosing investments from a manager with a solid track record can make the difference between success and shortfall.

Why Settle for Average?

Watch our chairman and vice chairman discuss why investors need not settle for average.

The Select Investment Scorecard

Explore how two simple screens – low expenses and high manager ownership – can identify a group of funds with the potential to beat the index.

Reducing Risk; Delivering Greater Value

Select Funds Can Reduce Risk

Index funds may fall as far as the market they track, but investors don't have to. Over time, investors can gain more by losing less.

Screening for Superior Funds

A few simple screens can identify investments managers that have delivered superior results for investors.

How to Screen for Funds

Selecting funds that meet three key criteria – low fees, low downside capture and high manager ownership – can be crucial in portfolio construction.

Investors Can Beat the Index

Investing in index funds means investors won’t do worse than the overall market, but it guarantees they’ll never do better. So why settle for average?

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.

American Funds Distributors, Inc., member FINRA.

This content, developed by Capital Group, home of American Funds, should not be used as a primary basis for investment decisions and is not intended to serve as impartial investment or fiduciary advice.

Past results are not predictive of results in future periods.