Boston Trust Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Boston Trust Midcap and Lord Abbett Convertible is -0.16 (i.e., Good diversification). The correlation of Boston Trust is a statistical measure of how it moves in relation to other instruments. This measure is expressed in what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random.

Boston Trust Correlation With Market

Good diversification

The correlation between Boston Trust Midcap and DJI is -0.11 (i.e., Good diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Boston Trust Midcap and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Trending Equities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Boston Trust Midcap. Also, note that the market value of any mutual fund could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in price.

Moving together with Boston Mutual Fund

  1.0WAMFX Walden MidcapPairCorr
  0.93WASMX Walden Smid CapPairCorr
  0.94BTSMX Boston Trust SmidPairCorr
  0.74BOSOX Boston Trust SmallPairCorr

Moving against Boston Mutual Fund

  0.49VSEMX Vanguard Extended MarketPairCorr
  0.42SMPSX Semiconductor UltrasectorPairCorr
  0.44LZEMX Lazard Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.43SMPIX Semiconductor UltrasectorPairCorr
  0.37PDNIX Pimco Diversified IncomePairCorr
  0.32PFONX Pimco International BondPairCorr
  0.31RSNYX Victory Global NaturalPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Boston Mutual Fund performing well and Boston Trust Mutual Fund doing well as a business compared to the competition. There are so many exceptions to the norm that investors cannot definitively determine what's good or bad unless they analyze Boston Trust's multiple risk-adjusted performance indicators across the competitive landscape. These indicators are quantitative in nature and help investors forecast volatility and risk-adjusted expected returns across various positions.