Emerging Markets Correlations

EMRCX Fund  USD 12.34  0.17  1.40%   
The current 90-days correlation between Emerging Markets and Fidelity Managed Retirement is 0.85 (i.e., Very poor diversification). The correlation of Emerging Markets 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.

Emerging Markets Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between Emerging Markets Fund and DJI is 0.72 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Emerging Markets 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 Emerging Markets 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 Emerging Mutual Fund

  1.0EMRIX Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  1.0EMRZX Vaneck Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  1.0EMRYX Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.77GHAIX Global Hard AssetsPairCorr
  0.77GHAYX Global Hard AssetsPairCorr
  0.78GHACX Global Hard AssetsPairCorr
  0.7CMCAX Cm Modity IndexPairCorr
  0.7CMCYX Cm Modity IndexPairCorr
  0.7COMIX Cm Modity IndexPairCorr
  0.85VEMAX Vanguard Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.86VEIEX Vanguard Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.83VEMIX Vanguard Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.86VEMRX Vanguard Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.78FWWNX American Funds NewPairCorr
  0.78FNFWX American Funds NewPairCorr
  0.84NEWFX New World FundPairCorr
  0.84NWFFX New World FundPairCorr
  0.85NEWCX New World FundPairCorr
  0.91ODVYX Oppenheimer DevelopingPairCorr
  0.9CII Blackrock EnhancedPairCorr
  0.71ETV Eaton Vance TaxPairCorr

Moving against Emerging Mutual Fund

  0.54FRFXX Money Market ObligationsPairCorr
  0.37DPG Duff And PhelpsPairCorr
  0.35AVEFX Ave Maria BondPairCorr
  0.33IBM International Business Sell-off TrendPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Emerging Mutual Fund performing well and Emerging Markets 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 Emerging Markets' 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.