Vanguard Institutional Correlations

VITPX Fund  USD 100.20  1.54  1.56%   
The current 90-days correlation between Vanguard Institutional and Vanguard Total International is 0.69 (i.e., Poor diversification). The correlation of Vanguard Institutional 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.

Vanguard Institutional Correlation With Market

Very weak diversification

The correlation between Vanguard Institutional Total and DJI is 0.55 (i.e., Very weak diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Vanguard Institutional Total and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
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Moving together with Vanguard Mutual Fund

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  0.8VPMCX Vanguard PrimecapPairCorr
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  0.67VASVX Vanguard Selected ValuePairCorr
  0.82VSMAX Vanguard Small CapPairCorr
  0.92VSMPX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.72VSTCX Vanguard StrategicPairCorr
  0.77VTMSX Vanguard Tax ManagedPairCorr
  0.72VTRIX Vanguard InternationalPairCorr
  0.85VTTHX Vanguard Target RetiPairCorr
  0.95VDEQX Vanguard DiversifiedPairCorr
  0.72VDIGX Vanguard Dividend GrowthPairCorr
  0.63VVIAX Vanguard Value IndexPairCorr
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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Vanguard Mutual Fund performing well and Vanguard Institutional 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 Vanguard Institutional'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.