Small Company Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Small Pany Growth and Small Pany Value is 0.74 (i.e., Poor diversification). The correlation of Small Company 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.

Small Company Correlation With Market

Very weak diversification

The correlation between Small Pany Growth and DJI is 0.54 (i.e., Very weak diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Small Pany Growth 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 Small Pany Growth. 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 Small Mutual Fund

  1.0WSMGX Small Pany GrowthPairCorr
  0.66WSMVX Small Pany ValuePairCorr
  0.77WFIVX Wilshire 5000 IndexPairCorr
  0.72WINDX Wilshire 5000 IndexPairCorr
  0.71WLCGX Large Pany GrowthPairCorr
  0.75WLCVX Large Pany ValuePairCorr
  0.69DTLGX Wilshire LargePairCorr
  0.85DTSVX Small Pany ValuePairCorr
  0.99VSGAX Vanguard Small CapPairCorr
  0.99VSGIX Vanguard Small CapPairCorr
  0.99VISGX Vanguard Small Cap Potential GrowthPairCorr
  0.83VEXRX Vanguard ExplorerPairCorr
  0.84JGMIX Janus TritonPairCorr
  0.84JGMRX Janus TritonPairCorr
  0.82JGMCX Janus TritonPairCorr
  0.86JGMNX Janus TritonPairCorr
  0.77JHBCX Jhancock Blue ChipPairCorr

Moving against Small Mutual Fund

  0.44CSAIX Credit Suisse ManagedPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

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