Ashmore Emerging Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Ashmore Emerging Markets and Fidelity Natural Resources is 0.3 (i.e., Weak diversification). The correlation of Ashmore Emerging 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.

Ashmore Emerging Correlation With Market

Very poor diversification

The correlation between Ashmore Emerging Markets and DJI is 0.85 (i.e., Very poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Ashmore Emerging Markets 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 Ashmore Emerging Markets. 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 Ashmore Mutual Fund

  0.99EMECX Ashmore Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.99EMEAX Ashmore Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.99EMFIX Ashmore Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.63EMKIX Ashmore Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.62EMKCX Ashmore Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.96EMQIX Ashmore Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.96EMQAX Ashmore Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.97ESAGX Ashmore Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.98ESCIX Ashmore Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.86EFEIX Ashmore Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.85EFECX Ashmore Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.85EFEAX Ashmore Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.79IGIEX Ashmore Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.85ELBCX Ashmore Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.86ELBAX Ashmore Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.91VEMAX Vanguard Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.91VEIEX Vanguard Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.91VEMIX Vanguard Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.91VEMRX Vanguard Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.94NEWFX New World FundPairCorr
  0.94NWFFX New World FundPairCorr
  0.94NEWCX New World FundPairCorr
  0.94FWWNX American Funds NewPairCorr
  0.94FNFWX American Funds NewPairCorr
  0.78VTSAX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.75VFIAX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.78VTSMX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.78VSMPX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.78VITSX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.78VSTSX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.95VTIAX Vanguard Total InterPairCorr
  0.75VFINX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.75VFFSX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.89FRQAX Fidelity Income ReplPairCorr

Moving against Ashmore Mutual Fund

  0.74ESFIX Ashmore Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.72ECDCX Ashmore Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.72ECDAX Ashmore Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.47ESFCX Ashmore Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.58ODVYX Oppenheimer DevelopingPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Ashmore Mutual Fund performing well and Ashmore Emerging 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 Ashmore Emerging'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.