American Funds College 2033 Fund

AMERICAN FUNDS COLLEGE TARGET DATE SERIES · 7 share classes

Target-date fund
One fund, 7 share classes:CTLAXCTLCXCTLEXCTLFXTCFFXFCCFXFTCFX
$4.54B NAV
19 positions · as of 2026-04-30 · filed 2026-06-26

Fund classification

Classified from what the fund holds · as of 2026 Q2

American Funds College 2033 Fund is a target-date fund.

Asset class
Target-date
Region
United States
Management
Actively managed
Fund type
Open-end fund
Features
Fund of funds

Fund profile

As filed in the prospectus · 2025 Q4

Depending on the proximity to its target date, the fund will seek to achieve the following objectives to varying degrees: growth, income and preservation of capital. The target date is meant to roughly correspond to the year in which the fund beneficiary will start to withdraw funds to meet higher education expenses. The fund will increasingly emphasize income and preservation of capital by investing a greater portion of its assets in fixed income, equity-income and balanced funds as it approaches and passes its target date. In this way, the fund seeks to achieve an appropriate balance of total return and stability during different time periods.

Strategy · summarised

The fund invests in a mix of American Funds across growth, growth-and-income, equity-income, balanced, and fixed income categories, adjusting the weightings according to a glide path that becomes progressively more conservative as the target date approaches. The asset allocation shifts from equity-heavy in earlier years toward fixed income and capital preservation as the fund nears and passes its target date for education withdrawals. The fund is a fund of funds; its adviser periodically rebalances the underlying fund allocations and may change which funds are held.

Expenses
0.37% 1.46%across 7 share classes
Share classExpense ratio
CTLAX0.70%
CTLCX1.46%
CTLEX0.93%
CTLFX0.74%
TCFFX0.71%
FCCFX0.43%
FTCFX0.37%

Portfolio turnover 9.00% · as of 2025 Q4

Allocation

Asset groups · long / short shown separately, never netted · 2026 Q2

Partial coverage
99.86%
of net assets
Stocks99.86%

Latest quarter

What changed since the fund's previous filing

2026Q2 vs 2026Q1: 0 new0 exited

Return profile

Chart:

Total return as filed — price change plus distributions reinvested · trailing figures to Apr 2026

Share class1-year3-year5-yearVolWorst fall
+15.12%+39.74%+31.71%6.67%-6.29%
+14.29%+36.60%+26.89%6.73%-6.54%
+14.80%+38.69%+30.25%6.68%-6.42%
+15.41%+40.74%+33.11%6.69%-6.34%
+15.46%+40.74%+33.47%6.72%-6.34%
+15.42%+40.88%+33.59%6.70%-6.29%
+15.53%+41.12%+34.06%6.67%-6.29%

These classes hold the same portfolio, so the 7.17pp spread over 5 years is the cost difference between them — roughly 1.43pp a year — not a difference in what they own.

Cumulative return· May 2023 – Apr 2026

Holdings

By % of NAV · equity positions carry filed share counts · every resolvable issuer links to its company page

Issuer%NAVValue
BOND FUND OF AMERICA (THE) (BFA)14.11%$640.85M
AMERICAN MUTUAL FUND (AMF)RMFGX9.86%$447.69M
AMERICAN FUNDS MORTGAGE (AFMF)RMAGX8.81%$400.22M
AMERICAN FUNDS STRATEGIC BOND FUND (SBF)RANGX8.81%$399.85M
INCOME FUND OF AMERICA (THE) (IFA)RIDGX7.67%$348.49M
WASHINGTON MUTUAL INVESTORS FUND (WMIF)RWMGX7.25%$329.28M
AMERICAN BALANCED FUND (AMBAL)RLBGX7.08%$321.34M
AMERICAN HIGH-INCOME TRUSTRITGX6.94%$315.21M
AMERICAN FUNDS MULTI-SECTOR INCOME FUND (MSI)RMDUX6.94%$315.15M
CAPITAL INCOME BUILDER (CIB)RIRGX5.58%$253.20M
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Reported price is the fund's own reported value divided by its own reported shares at 2026-04-30 — not a live quote, and not what the fund paid.

Top 10 positions are 83.05% of net assets, top 25 99.86%, across 19 issuers.

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