Ivy Balanced Correlations

IBARX Fund  USD 23.55  0.01  0.04%   
The current 90-days correlation between Ivy Balanced and Global Real Estate is 0.7 (i.e., Poor diversification). The correlation of Ivy Balanced 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.

Ivy Balanced Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between Ivy Balanced Fund and DJI is 0.73 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Ivy Balanced Fund and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Risk vs Return Analysis to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Ivy Balanced Fund. 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 metropolitan statistical area.

Moving together with Ivy Mutual Fund

  0.8ILGRX Ivy Large CapPairCorr
  0.75WRGCX Ivy Small CapPairCorr
  0.75WSCYX Ivy Small CapPairCorr
  0.75WSGRX Ivy Small CapPairCorr
  0.8WASCX Ivy Asset StrategyPairCorr
  0.78WASYX Ivy Asset StrategyPairCorr
  0.9WSTRX Ivy Science AndPairCorr
  0.9WSTYX Ivy Science AndPairCorr
  0.9WSTCX Ivy Science AndPairCorr
  0.7INRSX Ivy Natural ResourcesPairCorr
  0.97WCEYX Ivy E EquityPairCorr
  0.76IRGFX Ivy Small CapPairCorr
  0.78IASTX Ivy Asset StrategyPairCorr
  0.79IASRX Ivy Asset StrategyPairCorr
  0.82ISPVX Ivy Small CapPairCorr
  0.9ISTIX Ivy Science AndPairCorr
  0.9ISTNX Ivy Science AndPairCorr
  0.65WHIYX Ivy High IncomePairCorr
  1.0IBNYX Ivy BalancedPairCorr
  1.0IBNCX Ivy BalancedPairCorr
  0.89ITGRX Ivy Global GrowthPairCorr
  0.97ICEQX Ivy E EquityPairCorr
  0.97ICIEX Ivy E EquityPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Ivy Mutual Fund performing well and Ivy Balanced 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 Ivy Balanced'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.