Delaware Healthcare Correlations

DLHCX Fund  USD 20.55  0.30  1.48%   
The current 90-days correlation between Delaware Healthcare and Optimum Small Mid Cap is 0.77 (i.e., Poor diversification). The correlation of Delaware Healthcare 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.

Delaware Healthcare Correlation With Market

Very poor diversification

The correlation between Delaware Healthcare Fund and DJI is 0.81 (i.e., Very poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Delaware Healthcare Fund and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Investing Opportunities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Delaware Healthcare Fund. 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 main economic indicators.

Moving together with Delaware Mutual Fund

  0.76OASGX Optimum Small MidPairCorr
  0.85OASVX Optimum Small MidPairCorr
  0.95IMAAX Ivy Apollo MultiPairCorr
  0.92WASAX Ivy Asset StrategyPairCorr
  0.7WSGAX Ivy Small CapPairCorr
  0.82OCIEX Optimum InternationalPairCorr
  0.93OCLVX Optimum Large CapPairCorr
  0.78OCLGX Optimum Large CapPairCorr
  0.76OCSGX Optimum Small MidPairCorr
  0.85OCSVX Optimum Small MidPairCorr
  0.8WSTAX Ivy Science AndPairCorr
  0.67DMO Western Asset MortgagePairCorr
  0.85CXHYX Delaware National HighPairCorr
  0.81WCEAX Ivy E EquityPairCorr
  0.84FTNYX Delaware Tax FreePairCorr
  0.84FTORX First Investors TaxPairCorr
  0.84FTOTX First Investors TaxPairCorr
  1.0DLHIX Delaware HealthcarePairCorr
  1.0DLHAX Delaware HealthcarePairCorr
  1.0DLRHX Delaware HealthcarePairCorr
  0.82IPOAX Ivy Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.84DMHIX Delaware Minnesota HighPairCorr
  0.84DMOCX Delaware Tax FreePairCorr
  0.83DMNIX Delaware Tax FreePairCorr
  0.8DMTFX Delaware Tax FreePairCorr
  0.79DMUSX Delaware Tax FreePairCorr
  0.93IRSAX Ivy Advantus RealPairCorr
  0.81OIIEX Optimum InternationalPairCorr
  0.78OILGX Optimum Large CapPairCorr
  0.77VCTFX Delaware Tax FreePairCorr
  0.75OISGX Optimum Small MidPairCorr
  0.85OISVX Optimum Small MidPairCorr

Moving against Delaware Mutual Fund

  0.54DLTZX Delaware Limited TermPairCorr
  0.44DLTRX Delaware Limited TermPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Delaware Mutual Fund performing well and Delaware Healthcare 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 Delaware Healthcare'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.
Mean DeviationJensen AlphaSortino RatioTreynor RatioSemi DeviationExpected ShortfallPotential UpsideValue @RiskMaximum Drawdown
OASGX  1.59 (0.13) 0.00 (0.23) 0.00 
 2.67 
 15.12 
OASVX  1.22 (0.09) 0.00 (0.22) 0.00 
 2.24 
 13.64 
IMAAX  0.55 (0.01) 0.00 (0.17) 0.00 
 1.07 
 4.97 
WASAX  0.75  0.06  0.00 (0.05) 0.00 
 1.33 
 7.11 
WSGAX  1.66 (0.03) 0.00 (0.16) 0.00 
 2.81 
 13.83 
OCIEX  0.98  0.15  0.12  0.07  1.60 
 1.97 
 8.62 
OCLVX  0.94  0.02  0.00 (0.11) 0.00 
 1.50 
 9.60 
OCSGX  1.58 (0.13) 0.00 (0.24) 0.00 
 2.62 
 14.99 
OCSVX  1.23 (0.09) 0.00 (0.22) 0.00 
 2.22 
 13.65 
WSTAX  1.92  0.00  0.00 (0.14) 0.00 
 2.85 
 18.34