Financial Industries Correlations

FIDCX Fund  USD 14.94  0.38  2.61%   
The current 90-days correlation between Financial Industries and Dfa Real Estate is 0.83 (i.e., Very poor diversification). The correlation of Financial Industries 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.

Financial Industries Correlation With Market

Good diversification

The correlation between Financial Industries Fund and DJI is -0.03 (i.e., Good diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Financial Industries 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 Financial Industries 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 Financial Mutual Fund

  1.0VFAIX Vanguard Financials IndexPairCorr
  0.98FRBCX Regional BankPairCorr
  0.98JRGRX Regional BankPairCorr
  1.0PRISX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  1.0JFDRX Financial IndustriesPairCorr
  1.0TFIFX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.97DVFYX Davis FinancialPairCorr
  0.97RPFGX Davis FinancialPairCorr
  0.98DFFCX Davis FinancialPairCorr
  0.9WRHIX Ivy High IncomePairCorr
  0.9WHIAX Ivy High IncomePairCorr
  0.9IHIFX Ivy High IncomePairCorr
  0.9IVHIX Ivy High IncomePairCorr
  0.75IBM International BusinessPairCorr
  0.87HPQ HP IncPairCorr
  0.7MSFT MicrosoftPairCorr
  0.62WMT WalmartPairCorr
  0.77BA BoeingPairCorr
  0.99BAC Bank of AmericaPairCorr
  0.87GE GE AerospacePairCorr
  0.78HD Home DepotPairCorr
  0.8AA Alcoa Corp Earnings Call This WeekPairCorr
  0.88AXP American ExpressPairCorr

Moving against Financial Mutual Fund

  0.43MGOIX Mainstay GovernmentPairCorr
  0.57VZ Verizon CommunicationsPairCorr
  0.55KO Coca ColaPairCorr
  0.5T ATT Inc Earnings Call This WeekPairCorr
  0.43FMUSX Federated MunicipalPairCorr
  0.36MCD McDonaldsPairCorr

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Correlation Matchups

Over a given time period, the two securities move together when the Correlation Coefficient is positive. Conversely, the two assets move in opposite directions when the Correlation Coefficient is negative. Determining your positions' relationship to each other is valuable for analyzing and projecting your portfolio's future expected return and risk.
High positive correlations   
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High negative correlations   
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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Financial Mutual Fund performing well and Financial Industries 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 Financial Industries' 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.