Balanced Fund Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Balanced Fund Instit and Ep Emerging Markets is -0.15 (i.e., Good diversification). The correlation of Balanced Fund 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.

Balanced Fund Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between Balanced Fund Institutional and DJI is 0.74 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Balanced Fund Institutional 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 Balanced Fund Institutional. 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 american community survey.

Moving together with Balanced Mutual Fund

  0.99FBONX American Funds AmericanPairCorr
  0.99FBAFX American Funds AmericanPairCorr
  0.99ABALX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.99BALCX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.99BALFX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.99RLBCX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.99RLBBX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.99CLBAX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.99CLBEX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.99RLBFX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.97ASG Liberty All StarPairCorr
  0.92IIF Morgan Stanley IndiaPairCorr
  0.66CLM Cornerstone StrategicPairCorr
  0.67CRF Cornerstone StrategicPairCorr
  0.94USA Liberty All StarPairCorr
  0.98NFJ Virtus Dividend InterestPairCorr
  0.63JPM JPMorgan ChasePairCorr
  0.67IBM International BusinessPairCorr

Moving against Balanced Mutual Fund

  0.61MCD McDonaldsPairCorr
  0.39TRV The Travelers CompaniesPairCorr
  0.31HPQ HP IncPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

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