First Investors Correlations

FTORX Fund  USD 12.18  0.03  0.25%   
The current 90-days correlation between First Investors Tax and Optimum Small Mid Cap is 0.11 (i.e., Average diversification). The correlation of First Investors 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.

First Investors Correlation With Market

Significant diversification

The correlation between First Investors Tax and DJI is 0.07 (i.e., Significant diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding First Investors Tax 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 First Investors Tax. 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 metropolitan statistical area.

Moving together with First Mutual Fund

  0.79OCFIX Optimum Fixed IncomePairCorr
  0.66WSGAX Ivy Small CapPairCorr
  0.91CXHYX Delaware National HighPairCorr
  0.91FTNYX Delaware Tax FreePairCorr
  0.92FTOTX First Investors TaxPairCorr
  0.91DMHIX Delaware Minnesota HighPairCorr
  0.91DMOCX Delaware Tax FreePairCorr
  0.92DMNIX Delaware Tax FreePairCorr
  0.9DMTFX Delaware Tax FreePairCorr
  0.93DMUSX Delaware Tax FreePairCorr
  0.88VAZIX Delaware Tax FreePairCorr
  0.75OIFIX Optimum Fixed IncomePairCorr
  0.63OILGX Optimum Large CapPairCorr
  0.91VCTFX Delaware Tax FreePairCorr
  0.77DPCFX Delaware DiversifiedPairCorr
  0.86DPDFX Delaware DiversifiedPairCorr
  0.87DPFFX Delaware DiversifiedPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between First Mutual Fund performing well and First Investors 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 First Investors' 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
OASGX  0.88  0.03  0.02  0.08  1.15 
 1.77 
 8.43 
OASVX  0.86 (0.09) 0.00 (0.16) 0.00 
 1.51 
 11.93 
IMAAX  0.35 (0.09) 0.00 (0.47) 0.00 
 0.54 
 2.73 
OCFIX  0.26 (0.04) 0.00 (0.91) 0.00 
 0.47 
 1.53 
WASAX  0.52 (0.11) 0.00 (0.47) 0.00 
 0.75 
 6.94 
WSGAX  1.04 (0.06) 0.00 (0.08) 0.00 
 1.67 
 11.19 
OCIEX  0.54 (0.07) 0.00 (0.31) 0.00 
 0.90 
 3.59 
OCLVX  0.60 (0.12) 0.00 (0.29) 0.00 
 1.04 
 8.33 
OCLGX  1.01 (0.14) 0.00 (5.53) 0.00 
 1.59 
 14.44 
OCSGX  0.89  0.03  0.02  0.08  1.13 
 1.72 
 8.50