Alger Small Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Alger Small Cap and Amg River Road is -0.08 (i.e., Good diversification). The correlation of Alger Small 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.

Alger Small Correlation With Market

Average diversification

The correlation between Alger Small Cap and DJI is 0.15 (i.e., Average diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Alger Small Cap and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Trending Equities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Alger Small Cap. 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 metropolitan statistical area.

Moving together with Alger Mutual Fund

  0.63AMGAX Alger Midcap GrowthPairCorr
  0.67AMGOX Alger Mid CapPairCorr
  0.71AOFYX Alger Small CapPairCorr
  0.93AOFIX Alger Small CapPairCorr
  0.82AOFAX Alger Small CapPairCorr
  0.7CHUSX Alger Global GrowthPairCorr
  0.74CHUCX Alger Global GrowthPairCorr
  0.74AAGOX Alger Large CapPairCorr
  0.99ASCYX Alger FundsPairCorr
  0.99ASCZX Alger Smallcap GrowthPairCorr
  0.96ASIRX Alger Smallcap GrowthPairCorr
  0.92ASIMX Alger Smidcap FocusPairCorr
  0.92ASMZX Alger Smidcap FocusPairCorr
  0.75ASPCX Alger SpectraPairCorr
  0.77ASPZX Alger SpectraPairCorr
  0.77ASPYX Alger SpectraPairCorr
  0.92ASYMX Alger Weatherbie SpePairCorr
  0.79ACAYX Alger Capital ApprecPairCorr
  0.76ACAZX Alger Capital ApprecPairCorr
  0.76ACARX Alger Capital ApprecPairCorr
  0.7ACAAX Alger Capital ApprecPairCorr
  0.68ATVPX Alger 35 FundPairCorr
  0.79ACIZX Alger Capital ApprecPairCorr
  0.77ADOZX Alger Dynamic OpportPairCorr
  0.76AFGZX Alger Global GrowthPairCorr
  0.68AFGPX Alger InternationalPairCorr
  0.76AFGIX Alger Global GrowthPairCorr
  0.7AFOIX Alger Mid CapPairCorr

Moving against Alger Mutual Fund

  0.36CNEIX Alger Concentrated EquityPairCorr
  0.36CNEYX Alger Concentrated EquityPairCorr
  0.36CNEZX Alger Concentrated EquityPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

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