Boston Trust Correlations

BTBFX Fund  USD 60.49  0.02  0.03%   
The current 90-days correlation between Boston Trust Asset and Walden Asset Management is 0.92 (i.e., Almost no diversification). The correlation of Boston Trust 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.

Boston Trust Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between Boston Trust Asset and DJI is 0.79 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Boston Trust Asset and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
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Moving together with Boston Mutual Fund

  0.94WAMFX Walden MidcapPairCorr
  0.98WSBFX Walden Asset ManagementPairCorr
  0.95WSEFX Walden EquityPairCorr
  0.92WASMX Walden Smid CapPairCorr
  0.99BTEFX Boston Trust EquityPairCorr
  0.92BTMFX Boston Trust MidcapPairCorr
  0.92BTSMX Boston Trust SmidPairCorr
  0.88BOSOX Boston Trust SmallPairCorr

Moving against Boston Mutual Fund

  0.47GF New Germany ClosedPairCorr
  0.33VSGDX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  0.31PSDNX Putnam Ultra ShortPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Boston Mutual Fund performing well and Boston Trust 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 Boston Trust'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.