Forum Real Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Forum Real Estate and Extended Market Index is 0.09 (i.e., Significant diversification). The correlation of Forum Real 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.

Forum Real Correlation With Market

Significant diversification

The correlation between Forum Real Estate and DJI is 0.07 (i.e., Significant diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Forum Real Estate 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 Forum Real Estate. 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 Forum Mutual Fund

  0.87VTSAX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.85VFIAX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.87VTSMX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.87VITSX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.87VSTSX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.87VSMPX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.88VFINX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.86VFFSX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.79VGTSX Vanguard Total InterPairCorr
  0.79VTIAX Vanguard Total InterPairCorr
  0.87PSNSX Pimco Stocksplus SmallPairCorr
  0.65MMM 3M CompanyPairCorr
  0.79GE GE AerospacePairCorr
  0.72BA BoeingPairCorr
  0.78JPM JPMorgan ChasePairCorr
  0.77CVX Chevron CorpPairCorr
  0.73HD Home Depot Sell-off TrendPairCorr
  0.85CAT CaterpillarPairCorr

Moving against Forum Mutual Fund

  0.64IBM International BusinessPairCorr
  0.6PG Procter GamblePairCorr
  0.48KO Coca ColaPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Forum Mutual Fund performing well and Forum Real 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 Forum Real'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.