Health Care Correlations

FSPHX Fund  USD 31.57  0.05  0.16%   
The current 90-days correlation between Health Care Portfolio and Biotechnology Portfolio Biotechnology is 0.78 (i.e., Poor diversification). The correlation of Health Care 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.

Health Care Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between Health Care Portfolio and DJI is 0.67 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Health Care Portfolio 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 Health Care Portfolio. 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 rate.

Moving together with Health Mutual Fund

  0.61FPTKX Fidelity Freedom 2015PairCorr
  0.65FRASX Fidelity Income ReplPairCorr
  0.66FRQKX Fidelity Managed RetPairCorr
  0.66FRQAX Fidelity Income ReplPairCorr
  0.66FACFX Fidelity Advisor FreedomPairCorr
  0.63FADIX Fidelity Advisor DivPairCorr
  0.66FAIDX Fidelity InternationalPairCorr

Moving against Health Mutual Fund

  0.32FAFSX Fidelity Advisor FinPairCorr
  0.32FAFCX Fidelity Advisor FinPairCorr
  0.31FACVX Fidelity VertiblePairCorr
  0.43FSAWX Fidelity Sai ConvertiblePairCorr

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Correlation Matchups

Over a given time period, the two securities move together when the Correlation Coefficient is positive. Conversely, the two assets move in opposite directions when the Correlation Coefficient is negative. Determining your positions' relationship to each other is valuable for analyzing and projecting your portfolio's future expected return and risk.
High positive correlations   
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High negative correlations   
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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Health Mutual Fund performing well and Health Care 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 Health Care'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.