Delaware Healthcare Correlations

DLRHX Fund  USD 27.01  0.32  1.20%   
The current 90-days correlation between Delaware Healthcare and Pace Smallmedium Value is 0.61 (i.e., Poor diversification). The correlation of Delaware Healthcare 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.

Delaware Healthcare Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between Delaware Healthcare Fund 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 Delaware Healthcare Fund 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 Delaware Healthcare 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 rate.

Moving together with Delaware Mutual Fund

  0.72OCFIX Optimum Fixed IncomePairCorr
  1.0DLHIX Delaware HealthcarePairCorr
  1.0DLHCX Delaware HealthcarePairCorr
  1.0DLHAX Delaware HealthcarePairCorr
  0.7OIFIX Optimum Fixed IncomePairCorr
  0.7DPCFX Delaware DiversifiedPairCorr
  0.67DPFFX Delaware DiversifiedPairCorr

Moving against Delaware Mutual Fund

  0.66OASVX Optimum Small MidPairCorr
  0.65OCLGX Optimum Large CapPairCorr
  0.65OCSVX Optimum Small MidPairCorr
  0.65WCEAX Ivy E EquityPairCorr
  0.54OCLVX Optimum Large CapPairCorr
  0.54DMO Western Asset MortgagePairCorr
  0.52OASGX Optimum Small MidPairCorr
  0.51OCSGX Optimum Small MidPairCorr
  0.49WSTAX Ivy Science AndPairCorr
  0.33WSGAX Ivy Small CapPairCorr
  0.65OILGX Optimum Large CapPairCorr
  0.57OILVX Optimum Large CapPairCorr
  0.52OISGX Optimum Small MidPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Delaware Mutual Fund performing well and Delaware Healthcare 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 Delaware Healthcare'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.