The American Funds mutual fund family continues to be one of the dominant fund managers despite some recent performance issues. It claims 7 of the world’s largest 15 mutual funds with those funds holding over $600 billion in assets.
Because American Funds now updates holdings every month, it is now possible for investors to follow and consider the funds’ top investments for their own portfolio.
In addition we can filter and focus on the highest yielding positions. We are also going to track these picks over time to see if investors can benefit from tracking the largest manager.
Here are the top 10 holdings that each yield over 3%, aggregated across six of their largest funds, as of 2/28/2011.