Fairfax Financial Correlations

FFH-PD Preferred Stock  CAD 25.14  0.01  0.04%   
The current 90-days correlation between Fairfax Financial and Forstrong Global Income is 0.04 (i.e., Significant diversification). The correlation of Fairfax Financial 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.

Fairfax Financial Correlation With Market

Average diversification

The correlation between Fairfax Financial Holdings and DJI is 0.13 (i.e., Average diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Fairfax Financial Holdings and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
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Moving together with Fairfax Preferred Stock

  0.7DFN Dividend 15 SplitPairCorr
  0.9FFN North American FinancialPairCorr
  0.69DGS Dividend Growth SplitPairCorr

Moving against Fairfax Preferred Stock

  0.84NRR-UN Northview ResidentialPairCorr
  0.75TIL Till CapitalPairCorr

Related Correlations Analysis

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Correlation Matchups

Over a given time period, the two securities move together when the Correlation Coefficient is positive. Conversely, the two assets move in opposite directions when the Correlation Coefficient is negative. Determining your positions' relationship to each other is valuable for analyzing and projecting your portfolio's future expected return and risk.
High positive correlations   
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ULV-UFINC
0P0000OXA6XHB
ULV-U0P0000OXA6
  
High negative correlations   
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ALA-PAFINC
ALA-PAXHB
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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Fairfax Preferred Stock performing well and Fairfax Financial Company 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 Fairfax Financial'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.
Mean DeviationJensen AlphaSortino RatioTreynor RatioSemi DeviationExpected ShortfallPotential UpsideValue @RiskMaximum Drawdown
FINC  0.11  0.02  0.00 (0.09) 0.00 
 0.37 
 2.23 
ZUAG-U  0.14 (0.04) 0.00  3.71  0.00 
 0.42 
 2.35 
TNO-H  14.58  3.46  0.00  1.43  0.00 
 100.00 
 150.00 
XHB  0.19  0.01 (0.49)(0.22) 0.13 
 0.41 
 1.07 
EDGF  0.81  0.01 (0.05) 0.18  1.11 
 2.20 
 6.42 
SOLR  6.23  0.49  0.01 (0.28) 8.17 
 25.00 
 50.00 
0P0000OXA6  0.50  0.09 (0.02) 0.78  0.50 
 1.07 
 4.34 
ALA-PA  0.51  0.01 (0.17) 0.06  0.67 
 1.15 
 3.73 
ULV-U  0.25  0.11  0.00 (1.23) 0.00 
 0.46 
 5.90 
ECO  1.48 (0.03)(0.05) 0.04  1.87 
 3.84 
 11.63 

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Fairfax Financial Corporate Management

Elected by the shareholders, the Fairfax Financial's board of directors comprises two types of representatives: Fairfax Financial inside directors who are chosen from within the company, and outside directors, selected externally and held independent of Fairfax. The board's role is to monitor Fairfax Financial's management team and ensure that shareholders' interests are well served. Fairfax Financial's inside directors are responsible for reviewing and approving budgets prepared by upper management to implement core corporate initiatives and projects. On the other hand, Fairfax Financial's outside directors are responsible for providing unbiased perspectives on the board's policies.