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The trouble at American Funds may have started with performance, but the key to turning things around is…

The trouble at American Funds may have started with performance, but the key to turning things around is going to rest on the company's ability to engage fee-based financial advisers.

American Funds, which has seen its mutual fund assets shrink to $857 billion, from a peak of $1.2 trillion in 2007,

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