American Funds New World B Fund (NEWBX)

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American Funds New World B Fund (NEWBX) Fund Statistics (February 28, 2010)

Category: Diversified Emerging Mkts
Net Asset: $15.91B
Yield: 0.59%
Year-to-Date Return: -3.48%
Morningstar rating: 4

American Funds New World B Fund (NEWBX) Cost

Initial Investment: $250
Total Expense Ratio (Diversified Emerging Mkts average): 1.95% (1.78%)
Max Front End Sales Load: %
Max Back End Sales Load: 5.00%
Annual Holdings Turnover: 36.00%

American Funds New World B Fund (NEWBX) Performance

1-month Performance (Diversified Emerging Mkts category average): 0.65% (0.91%)
3-month Performance (Diversified Emerging Mkts category average): -1.72% (-1.54%)
1 Year Performance (Diversified Emerging Mkts category average): 62.96% (89.99 %)
3 Year Performance (Diversified Emerging Mkts category average): 1.02% (0.80 %)
5 Year Performance (Diversified Emerging Mkts category average): 9.18% (10.19 %)
Best 3 year performance: 28.38%
Worst 3 year performance: -2.40%
Number of Years of positive return: 6 years
Number of Years of negative return: 3 years
3 year Alpha (Diversified Emerging Mkts category average): 10.22 (14.17)
3 year Beta (Diversified Emerging Mkts category average): 1.03 (1.3)
3 year Sharpe Ratio: 0.1
3 year Treynor: -0.79

Most Recent Top 10 Stock Holdings in American Funds New World B Fund (NEWBX) as of 31-Dec-09

[See Stock Holding Change Map]

Stock	Weighting	Price change (15 mins delay)
America Movil, S.A.B. de C.V. A	2.86%	-0.39%
NESTLE N ORD	1.37%	0.00%
Itausa Investimentos Itau Sa	1.17%	N/A
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries	1.13%	1.64%
Banco Santander - Chile ADS	1.13%	-1.13%
	1.13%	0.00%
Vail Resorts, Inc. Common Stock	1.1%	-0.18%
Itau Unibanco Holding SA	1.02%	N/A
Pharsight Corporation	0.98%	0.00%
LINDE AG	0.94%	0.00%

*Note: The price change will reset to 0 after the midnight

American Funds New World B Fund (NEWBX) Sector Breakdown (% of stocks) as of 31-Dec-09

Sector	Weighting
Hardware	2.75%
Software	0.67%
Media	0.32%
Telecommunications	13.51%
Consumer services	5.48%
Business Services	2.45%
Financial Services	22.33%
Healthcare	8.75%
Utilities	3.03%
Consumer goods	15.20%
Energy	10.19%
Industrial materials	15.31%

American Funds New World B Fund (NEWBX) Fund Portfolio Allocation for 09/2009

Stock	76.62%
Bond	11.06%
Cash	12.2%
Other	0.11%

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