Financial Industries Correlations

FIDAX Fund  USD 13.75  0.12  0.88%   
The current 90-days correlation between Financial Industries and Nuveen Short Term is 0.04 (i.e., Significant diversification). The correlation of Financial Industries 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.

Financial Industries Correlation With Market

Average diversification

The correlation between Financial Industries Fund and DJI is 0.13 (i.e., Average diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Financial Industries Fund and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
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Moving against Financial Mutual Fund

  0.61JRBFX Regional BankPairCorr
  0.53FRBCX Regional BankPairCorr
  0.52JRGRX Regional BankPairCorr
  0.49FRBAX Regional BankPairCorr
  0.39JAACX Alternative AssetPairCorr
  0.38PZFVX Classic ValuePairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

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