Harding Loevner Correlations

HLFFX Fund  USD 8.39  0.03  0.36%   
The current 90-days correlation between Harding Loevner Frontier and Harding Loevner Emerging is 0.46 (i.e., Very weak diversification). The correlation of Harding Loevner 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.

Harding Loevner Correlation With Market

Modest diversification

The correlation between Harding Loevner Frontier and DJI is 0.21 (i.e., Modest diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Harding Loevner Frontier and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Risk vs Return Analysis to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Harding Loevner Frontier. 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 census.

Moving together with Harding Mutual Fund

  0.95HLEMX Harding Loevner EmergingPairCorr
  0.95HLEZX Harding Loevner InstPairCorr
  0.87HLGZX Harding Loevner GlobalPairCorr
  0.96HLFMX Harding Loevner FrontierPairCorr
  0.96HLFZX Highland Floating RatePairCorr
  0.91HLIZX Harding Loevner IntePairCorr
  0.89HLIDX Harding Loevner IntePairCorr
  0.87HLMVX Harding Loevner GlobalPairCorr
  0.7HLMCX Harding Loevner ChinesePairCorr
  0.95HLMEX Harding Loevner InstPairCorr
  0.86HLMGX Harding Loevner GlobalPairCorr
  0.91HLMIX Harding Loevner IntePairCorr
  0.91HLMNX Harding Loevner IntePairCorr
  0.96HLMOX Harding Loevner FrontierPairCorr
  0.88HLMRX Harding Loevner IntePairCorr
  0.88HLMSX Harding Loevner IntePairCorr
  0.88HLRZX Harding Loevner IntePairCorr
  0.91HLXCX Harding Loevner FundsPairCorr
  0.94VEMAX Vanguard Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.94VEIEX Vanguard Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.94VEMIX Vanguard Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.94VEMRX Vanguard Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.93FWWNX American Funds NewPairCorr
  0.93FNFWX American Funds NewPairCorr
  0.93NEWFX New World FundPairCorr
  0.93NWFFX New World FundPairCorr
  0.93NEWCX New World FundPairCorr
  0.92ODVYX Oppenheimer DevelopingPairCorr
  0.93QMGIX Oppenheimer GlobalPairCorr
  0.61PAIDX Pimco Short AssetPairCorr
  0.95DFEVX Emerging Markets ValuePairCorr

Moving against Harding Mutual Fund

  0.44PQTNX Pimco Trends ManagedPairCorr
  0.44PQTIX Aa Pimco TrPairCorr
  0.43PQTAX Pimco Trends ManagedPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Harding Mutual Fund performing well and Harding Loevner 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 Harding Loevner'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
HLEMX  0.88  0.06  0.05  0.07  1.34 
 2.18 
 6.49 
HLGZX  1.01  0.05  0.04  0.02  1.53 
 2.06 
 9.54 
HLFFX  0.58  0.05  0.08  0.47  0.89 
 1.02 
 4.25 
HLFMX  0.58  0.05  0.07  0.14  0.91 
 1.04 
 4.30 
HLFZX  0.57  0.05  0.07  0.14  0.89 
 1.02 
 4.25 
HLIZX  0.85  0.09  0.08  0.11  1.19 
 1.92 
 7.45 
HLIDX  0.84  0.08  0.07  0.09  1.25 
 1.83 
 7.56 
HLMVX  1.01  0.05  0.04  0.02  1.53 
 2.06 
 9.55 
HLMCX  1.12 (0.02) 0.00 (0.07) 0.00 
 2.61 
 10.74 
HLMEX  0.89  0.06  0.05  0.07  1.33 
 2.26 
 6.55