Summary
American Funds New Perspective Fund Class A is a mutual fund run by Capital Group. It does not trade on an exchange: you buy it from the fund company at a price set once a day.
- Yearly costs
- 0.71%
- Fund size
- $166.6B
- Dividend yield
- 6.20%
- Running since
- 1973
What speaks for it
- A large fund with $166.6B under management.
- Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 7.3%.
- It has been running since 1973.
What to watch
- Costs of 0.71% a year are above the middle of comparable funds (0.40%).
- In the last five years its price once dropped by 39% from its high.
A fund has no Bulios Score and no Fair Price of its own - both are computed from the results of a single company. This page shows what is inside the fund and what it costs instead.
Price
Performance
- 1 month
- -2.2%
- 3 months
- +1.1%
- This year
- +6.1%
- 1 year
- +1.0%
- 3 years
- +45%
- 5 years
- +6.8%
- 10 years
- +103%
What does it cost me?
Expensive- A year from $10,000
- $71.00
- Over 20 years
- $3,367
From every $10,000 invested the fund takes $71.00 a year. You do not pay it separately - it is taken out of the fund's value. Over 20 years at 5% yearly growth that adds up to about $3,367.
How has it done?
Growing over the long run- A year on average, 10 years
- +7.3%
- Deepest drop
- -39%
- Yearly volatility
- 16%
Average yearly growth over the last ten years: 7.3%. Deepest drop in these years: 39% below the earlier high.
Does it pay dividends?
Yes, it pays out- Yield
- 6.20%
- Payments a year
- 1
- Last payment
- $4.64
Over the last 12 months it paid $4.64 per share, which is 6.20% of today's price. The last payment was $4.64 on Dec 18, 2025.