Icon Financial Correlations

ICFSX Fund  USD 9.95  0.09  0.90%   
The current 90-days correlation between Icon Financial and Barings Active Short is 0.06 (i.e., Significant diversification). The correlation of Icon Financial 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.

Icon Financial Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between Icon Financial Fund and DJI is 0.71 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Icon Financial Fund 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 Icon Financial 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 Icon Mutual Fund

  1.0ICFAX Icon FinancialPairCorr
  0.83VFAIX Vanguard Financials IndexPairCorr
  0.88FRBCX Regional BankPairCorr
  0.87JRGRX Regional BankPairCorr
  0.86PRISX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.86FIDCX Financial IndustriesPairCorr
  0.85JFDRX Financial IndustriesPairCorr
  0.86TFIFX T Rowe PricePairCorr

Moving against Icon Mutual Fund

  0.61ICTEX Icon Information TecPairCorr
  0.61ICTTX Icon Information TecPairCorr
  0.56ICTUX Icon Utilities AndPairCorr
  0.55ICTVX Icon UtilitiesPairCorr
  0.37IOBAX Icon Bond FundPairCorr
  0.36ICBMX Icon Natural ResourcesPairCorr
  0.35IOBZX Icon Bond FundPairCorr
  0.35ICBAX Icon Natural ResourcesPairCorr
  0.75KF Korea ClosedPairCorr
  0.7SPGSX State Street PremierPairCorr
  0.66SCFVX Pgim Securitized CreditPairCorr
  0.65GIRPX Goldman Sachs EmergingPairCorr
  0.63QCGLIX College RetirementPairCorr
  0.61VWELX Vanguard WellingtonPairCorr
  0.61FMNIX Franklin Minnesota TaxPairCorr
  0.57LIWIX Blackrock Lifepath IndexPairCorr
  0.55FLMFX Muirfield Fund RetailPairCorr
  0.51BRUFX Bruce Fund BrucePairCorr
  0.33RYRRX Russell 2000PairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

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