Alger Growth Correlations

ALBAX Fund  USD 92.90  0.54  0.58%   
The current 90-days correlation between Alger Growth Income and Harbor Small Cap is 0.6 (i.e., Poor diversification). The correlation of Alger Growth 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.

Alger Growth Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between Alger Growth Income and DJI is 0.7 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Alger Growth Income and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Trending Equities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Alger Growth Income. Also, note that the market value of any mutual fund could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as various price indices.

Moving together with Alger Mutual Fund

  0.68VTSAX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.79VFIAX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.82VTSMX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.82VITSX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.82VSMPX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.68VSTSX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.91VFINX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.64VFFSX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.79VINIX Vanguard InstitutionalPairCorr
  0.91VIIIX Vanguard InstitutionalPairCorr
  0.64EKWAX Wells Fargo Advantage Steady GrowthPairCorr
  0.64FSAGX Gold Portfolio Gold Steady GrowthPairCorr
  0.64FKRCX Franklin Gold Precious Steady GrowthPairCorr
  0.64USAGX Precious Metals And Steady GrowthPairCorr
  0.65OPGSX Oppenheimer Gold Spec Steady GrowthPairCorr
  0.64GOLDX Gabelli Gold Steady GrowthPairCorr
  0.63UNWPX World Precious MineralsPairCorr
  0.61RWICX Capital World GrowthPairCorr
  0.83AOFAX Alger Small CapPairCorr
  0.68TRRVX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.74PATRX Pimco All AssetPairCorr
  0.86FFOLX Fidelity Freedom IndexPairCorr
  0.71PAUPX Pimco All AssetPairCorr
  0.71PAUIX Pimco All AssetPairCorr
  0.62AA Alcoa CorpPairCorr
  0.64BA Boeing Earnings Call This WeekPairCorr
  0.67WMT Walmart Common StockPairCorr

Moving against Alger Mutual Fund

  0.37PG Procter GamblePairCorr
  0.34T ATT Inc Earnings Call This WeekPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Alger Mutual Fund performing well and Alger Growth 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 Alger Growth'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.