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TEPAX

American Funds Tax-Exempt Preservation Portfolio

Expense Ratio
0.59%
AUM
$388M
Inception
5/22/2012
1Y Return
-0.4%3rd %ilevs 1,365 asset-class peers
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The fund invests at least 80% of its assets in fixed income funds that predominantly hold securities exempt from regular federal income tax, primarily seeking current income through bonds. It focuses on higher quality bonds rated A- or better, with intermediate to short-term durations, while allowing for exposure to lower quality, higher yielding securities rated BBB+ or below. The investment adviser actively manages combinations of underlying funds, considering historical volatility, current market conditions, and the preservation of capital.

Time Series
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Performance

NameCumulative ReturnAnn. ReturnAnn. VolSharpeMax DD
TEPAX
American Funds Tax-Exempt Preservation Portfolio
-0.4%-0.4%1.7%-2.45-3.2%
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. Drag on chart to select period. Sharpe Ratio uses the one-month T-bill as the risk-free rate. From 10/7/2025 to 10/7/2026.

Trailing Returns

Name
YTD1D5D1M3M6M1Y2Y3Y5YMAX
TEPAX
American Funds Tax-Exempt Preservation Portfolio
-1.1%-0.1%0.1%-1.9%-2.4%-1.6%-0.4%1.5%3.4%0.9%1.6%
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. Returns for periods greater than one year are annualized. As of 10/7/2026.

Annual Returns

Name
20122013201420152016201720182019202020212022202320242025YTD
TEPAX
American Funds Tax-Exempt Preservation Portfolio
2.5%*-1.1%5.0%1.8%-0.2%2.4%0.9%4.1%3.5%0.0%-4.3%3.6%2.1%4.6%-1.1%
ⓘ Methodology

* partial year — the series ran for only part of it (its first year, or the year it closed); the figure is the return over the part it did run. ETF performance based on market prices. As of 10/7/2026.

Correlation Matrix

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Factor Regression

Name
Ann. αβ MKTβ SMBβ HMLβ RMWβ CMAβ UMDβ iHMLR²Obs
TEPAXUS
American Funds Tax-Exempt Preservation Portfolio
-2.0%0.03**0.00-0.020.000.02-0.01-0.010.09226
ⓘ Methodology

ETF performance based on market prices. US factor set. Daily OLS of excess return (fund − T-bill) on factor spread returns over the selected date range, intersected with each series' history. Bold with * |t| ≥ 1.96, ** |t| ≥ 2.58. Cell shading tracks each loading's t-stat. Betas are returns-based — compare with the holdings-based factor scores below. Factor returns are long-short spread returns (© Ken French, Dartmouth). From 10/7/2025 to 8/31/2026.

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Fund Profile

Fund Documents(opens the fund company’s site in a new tab)
Family
Registrant
Type
Mutual Fund
Asset Class
Peer Asset Class
Asset Allocation
Region
Peer Group Benchmark
Prospectus Benchmark
Bloomberg Municipal Bond Index
Peer Group
Allocation - Aggressive (327 peers)
1Y Peer Percentile
3
3Y Peer Percentile
2
Expense Ratio
0.59%
5Y Tax Drag
0.02%/yr
AUM
$388M
3Y Flow
-24.3%
Yield
2.64%
Inception
5/22/2012
Holdings (Reported)
1,022
Turnover
15%
Equity
70%
Derivatives
0%
Net Equity Exposure
69%
Strategy Summary

The fund invests at least 80% of its assets in fixed income funds that predominantly hold securities exempt from regular federal income tax, primarily seeking current income through bonds. It focuses on higher quality bonds rated A- or better, with intermediate to short-term durations, while allowing for exposure to lower quality, higher yielding securities rated BBB+ or below. The investment adviser actively manages combinations of underlying funds, considering historical volatility, current market conditions, and the preservation of capital.

ⓘ Methodology

Expense ratio and its components from the fund's prospectus fee table; tax drag from its after-tax return table. Turnover from the SEC annual report (1/7/2026). Yield as of 10/6/2026, AUM 9/30/2026. Holdings, asset class, style, peer group and exposures as of 7/31/2026. Strategy summary from the fund's prospectus.

Factor DetailsRef: Asset Allocation Funds

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ⓘ Methodology

Hover or click for factor definitions. Weighted average of underlying company-level values with weights equal to position size. Solid blue dots mark the fund's position within the clean equity fund universe (5th–95th percentile scale); the shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Asset Allocation Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026. Expense ratio, yield, and turnover as of 10/6/2026. AUM as of 9/30/2026.

Asset Class Exposure

Equity69.4%
Fixed Income29.8%
Other0.8%
ⓘ Methodology

Shares of the fund's long book, from the asset category each position is filed under. Holdings that are themselves funds are looked through one level to their own mix (30% of the book). Cash & Short-Term includes 0.2% of net assets the filing does not itemise.

Country Exposure

Level
100.0%
100.0%
ⓘ Methodology

Shares are percentages of the holdings that carry a country, not portfolio weights. Based on N-PORT domicile; ADRs list under their exchange. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

Holdings

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12 positions (top 10 shown, create for full holdings) · 29.8% in funds

#NameTickerWeight %Country
1Limited Term Tax-Exempt Bond FD-
39.92
USA
2Capital Group Short Duration Municipal Income ETFCGSM
29.82
USA
3American FDS Sh-Term Tax-Exempt BD FD-
29.46
USA
4Capital Group Central Cash Fund-
0.53
USA
5Capital Group Central Cash Fund-
0.01
USA
6BlackRock Fedfund-
0.00
USA
7Dreyfus Cash Management Funds - Dreyfus Treasury And Agency Cash Management-
0.00
USA
8Goldman Sachs Financial Square Government Fund-
0.00
USA
9Invesco - Short-Term Investments Trust - Government And Agency Portfolio-
0.00
USA
10Morgan Stanley Invst MGT Inc - Morgan Stanley Instl Liquidity Fund - Govt Prtflo-
0.00
USA
ⓘ Methodology

Sector, country and factor detail need a security match; the share of weight that matched is a member figure, so the rows without one appear here with those columns blank. "In funds" adds up the rows tagged Fund — holdings that are themselves funds this app covers, which is what look-through can expand; a held vehicle that files no holdings of its own (a commodity or currency trust, a money-market fund) is not counted and stays a single line. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Stock-level data as of 8/31/2026.

ConcentrationRef: Asset Allocation Funds

Total Holdings1,022
Effective Holdings3
Top 10 Weight99.8%
Max Position39.9%
Top Sector (of Net Assets)100%
Top Country (of Net Assets)100%
ⓘ Methodology

Hover or click for definitions. Solid blue dots mark the fund: percentage rows on a 0–100% scale, holdings counts log-scaled across the clean-universe 5th–95th percentile range. The shaded band spans the fund's broad class (Asset Allocation Funds) 25th–75th percentile, notched at the median. Holdings as of 7/31/2026.

Peer Group Rank

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Metric
TEPAX
American Funds Tax-Exempt Preservation Portfolio
Peer Group
327 funds
Peer Asset Class
1,365 funds
YTD Return
-1.12%8.65%37.49%3
1Y Return
-0.44%11.06%39.48%3
3Y Return (Ann.)
3.37%15.40%214.21%1
5Y Return (Ann.)
0.94%7.12%36.38%3
Expense Ratiohigher = cheaper
0.59%0.94%820.80%67
ⓘ Methodology

Sparkline's own holdings-based peer taxonomy (945 share classes across 327 funds). One share class shown per fund — the exchange-listed class where the SEC series has one, else its longest-history class; percentile ranks and medians are computed against the same deduped set. Quartile chips fill the layer the fund's rank falls in (top layer = best quartile). Funds without a full return history rank only on the horizons they cover.

Similar Funds

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Nearest funds across the whole universe, by holdings and behavior — the peer taxonomy is ignored, so matches can come from any category.

Top Similarity33
Top Overlap
Top Active Tilt
Top Return Corr
FundPeer Group
1LTEBX
Limited Term Tax Exempt Bond Fund of America
Fixed Income - Muni Short
Fixed Income - Muni Short
33---
2CGSM
Capital Group Short Duration Municipal Income ETF
Fixed Income - Muni Short
Fixed Income - Muni Short
33---
3CBTAX
Six Circles Tax Aware Bond Fund
Fixed Income - Core
Fixed Income - Core
29---
4AFTEX
Tax Exempt Bond Fund of America
Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long
Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long
29---
5ASTEX
American Funds Short-Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund
Fixed Income - Muni Short
Fixed Income - Muni Short
29---
6VTEB
VANGUARD TAX-EXEMPT BOND INDEX FUND
Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long
Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long
27---
7CGMU
Capital Group Municipal Income ETF
Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long
Fixed Income - Muni Intermediate/Long
26---
8AMHIX
American High-Income Municipal Bond Fund
Fixed Income - Muni High Yield
Fixed Income - Muni High Yield
26---
9TAIAX
American Funds Tax-Aware Conservative Growth and Income Portfolio
Allocation - Moderate
Allocation - Moderate
20---
10CGHM
Capital Group Municipal High-Income ETF
Fixed Income - Muni High Yield
Fixed Income - Muni High Yield
20---

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ⓘ Methodology

Rows are the consensus top matches (a fund must place in at least two methods' top 250 to qualify, and matches missing more than one of this fund's own methods are not ranked — a row scored on fewer methods is a noisier estimate, not a better match). Click a method column to see that method's own top matches across the whole universe instead. Gray (N) beside each method's metric is that fund's rank in the whole universe on that method. Similarity is a percentile among match-grade fund pairs, 0–100 — 87 means the pair is closer than 87% of the strongest matches in the universe, averaged across the methods — so it compares across funds: index clones tie at the top with thousands of other clone pairs, so scores top out in the high 80s to 90s, while a one-of-a-kind fund's best match can score in the 30s. Rows are ordered by the Consensus Rank — the geometric mean of those universe ranks, shown in each cell's tooltip — and the score is held down the list to the level of the closest match above it, so equal scores mean equally close and the number reads as a floor. A dash means that method has no figure for the pair at all (one of them lacks the holdings or return history it needs). Hover a column header for each method's definition. The “Top…” strips above compare against every fund's own top match across the whole universe (they deliberately don't follow the Peer Universe selector); Top Similarity is simply the best match's score, with no reference band; the Holdings and Active Tilt strips carry no reference band because computing every fund's best book overlap would require a full holdings scan per fund — the dot stands alone on its natural 0–100% scale. One share class shown per fund, and a fund's own sister share classes are excluded from its Top-match strips. Holdings as of 7/31/2026. Consensus Rank is the geometric mean of the match's universe-wide rank across the methods (#1.0 = top match on every one). Holdings Overlap = common-holdings weight (sum of the minimum weight across shared positions, long only). Active Tilt Overlap = the same statistic on active weights (holdings minus the fund's own default benchmark, floored at 0), which strips the benchmark ballast that dominates raw overlap. Return Correlation = correlation of market-hedged daily returns over the trailing two years (CAPM residuals), so only market-beta co-movement is removed; requires ~18 months of daily history (378 of the window's 504 trading days).