Delaware Diversified Correlations

DPDFX Fund  USD 7.79  0.01  0.13%   
The current 90-days correlation between Delaware Diversified and Delaware Healthcare Fund is 0.19 (i.e., Average diversification). The correlation of Delaware Diversified 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.

Delaware Diversified Correlation With Market

Very weak diversification

The correlation between Delaware Diversified Income and DJI is 0.57 (i.e., Very weak diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Delaware Diversified Income 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 Delaware Diversified Income. 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 price.

Moving together with Delaware Mutual Fund

  0.9CXHYX Delaware National HighPairCorr
  0.94FTNYX Delaware Tax FreePairCorr
  0.94FTORX First Investors TaxPairCorr
  0.93FTOTX First Investors TaxPairCorr
  0.78IPOAX Ivy Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.93DMOCX Delaware Tax FreePairCorr
  0.92DMTFX Delaware Tax FreePairCorr
  0.93DMUSX Delaware Tax FreePairCorr
  0.94VCTFX Delaware Tax FreePairCorr
  0.94DPCFX Delaware DiversifiedPairCorr
  0.63FGIPX First Investors GrowthPairCorr
  0.77FGINX First Investors GrowthPairCorr
  0.9DPREX Delaware ReitPairCorr
  0.9DPRCX Delaware ReitPairCorr
  0.93DPTCX Delaware Tax FreePairCorr
  0.9FIUSX First Investors OppoPairCorr
  0.72FIVUX First Investors OppoPairCorr
  0.94IVSAX Ivy Global BondPairCorr
  0.83IEYAX Ivy Energy FundPairCorr
  0.86DTICX Delaware Limited TermPairCorr
  0.79DTRIX Delaware Limited TermPairCorr
  0.94DUICX Delaware Tax FreePairCorr
  0.94VIDAX Delaware Tax FreePairCorr

Moving against Delaware Mutual Fund

  0.67WLGAX Ivy Large CapPairCorr
  0.34DDFCX Delaware Floating RatePairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Delaware Mutual Fund performing well and Delaware Diversified 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 Delaware Diversified'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
WASAX  0.55  0.24  0.30 (1.28) 0.00 
 0.96 
 10.31 
WSGAX  1.92  0.59  0.15  4.51  2.94 
 1.69 
 68.29 
WSTAX  1.12  0.13  0.05 (0.69) 1.53 
 2.07 
 7.16 
CXHYX  0.12  0.01 (0.13)(1.51) 0.07 
 0.31 
 0.93 
WCEAX  0.83  0.28  0.26 (1.14) 0.51 
 1.10 
 17.19 
FTNYX  0.11  0.01 (0.10) 2.26  0.00 
 0.29 
 0.97 
FTORX  0.10  0.00 (0.10) 0.00  0.00 
 0.25 
 0.82 
FTOTX  0.11  0.01 (0.11) 0.57  0.07 
 0.25 
 0.83 
DLHCX  0.85  0.10  0.10  0.22  0.70 
 1.91 
 9.05 
DLHAX  0.89  0.17  0.16  0.96  0.62 
 1.93 
 10.20