William Blair Correlations

WBVRX Fund  USD 27.41  0.31  1.12%   
The current 90-days correlation between William Blair Small and T Rowe Price is 0.84 (i.e., Very poor diversification). The correlation of William Blair 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.

William Blair Correlation With Market

Good diversification

The correlation between William Blair Small and DJI is -0.01 (i.e., Good diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding William Blair Small and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
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Moving together with William Mutual Fund

  0.98WSMRX William Blair SmallPairCorr
  0.98WBCIX William Blair SmallPairCorr
  0.76WBCRX William Blair SmallPairCorr
  0.97WBGSX William Blair GrowthPairCorr
  0.98WBSNX William Blair SmallPairCorr
  1.0WBVNX William Blair SmallPairCorr
  0.72WVMIX William Blair MidPairCorr
  0.72WVMRX William Blair MidPairCorr
  0.87WGFIX William Blair GlobalPairCorr
  0.97BGFIX William Blair GrowthPairCorr
  0.87BGGIX William Blair GlobalPairCorr

Moving against William Mutual Fund

  0.7WRCGX William Blair ChinaPairCorr
  0.55WEDRX William Blair EmergingPairCorr
  0.54WEDIX William Blair EmergingPairCorr
  0.61BTMPX Ishares Msci EafePairCorr
  0.61BTMKX Blackrock InternationalPairCorr
  0.56WICGX William Blair ChinaPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between William Mutual Fund performing well and William Blair 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 William Blair'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.