Equity Income Correlations

GEQIX Fund  USD 14.22  0.07  0.49%   
The current 90-days correlation between Equity Income Portfolio and Prudential Emerging Markets is 0.05 (i.e., Significant diversification). The correlation of Equity Income 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.

Equity Income Correlation With Market

Very poor diversification

The correlation between Equity Income Portfolio and DJI is 0.83 (i.e., Very poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Equity Income Portfolio and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Risk vs Return Analysis to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Equity Income Portfolio. 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 gross domestic product.

Moving together with Equity Mutual Fund

  0.99GTAPX Long/short PortfolioPairCorr
  0.86GTCEX Strategic Equity PorPairCorr
  0.96GTCIX International PortfolioPairCorr
  0.97GTCSX Small Cap EquityPairCorr
  1.0GTLIX Large Cap CorePairCorr
  0.99GTLLX Large Cap GrowthPairCorr
  0.99GTLSX Quantitative LongshortPairCorr
  0.97GTSCX Small Cap EquityPairCorr
  1.0GTTMX Total Market PortfolioPairCorr
  0.89VVIAX Vanguard Value IndexPairCorr
  0.9AWSHX Washington MutualPairCorr
  0.9WSHCX Washington MutualPairCorr
  0.79WSHFX Washington MutualPairCorr
  0.92FWWMX American Funds WashingtonPairCorr
  0.92FWMMX American Funds WashingtonPairCorr
  0.87DODGX Dodge Stock FundPairCorr
  0.97AMFFX American MutualPairCorr
  0.97AMFCX American MutualPairCorr
  0.8JDEAX Jpmorgan DisciplinedPairCorr
  0.95GSMYX Goldman Sachs SmallmidPairCorr
  0.92HCAYX Hartford CapitalPairCorr
  0.97HFDFX Hartford SchrodersPairCorr
  0.93GRRTX Goldman Sachs AbsolutePairCorr
  0.75KF Korea ClosedPairCorr
  0.93GMVRX Goldman Sachs SmallmidPairCorr
  0.86HMJCX Hartford Municipal ShortPairCorr

Moving against Equity Mutual Fund

  0.98GWILX Woman In LeadershipPairCorr
  0.76AMRMX American MutualPairCorr
  0.71TCSUX Cleartrack 2020 ClassPairCorr
  0.68TCTGX Transamerica CleartrackPairCorr
  0.67TCTJX Transamerica CleartrackPairCorr
  0.67UIPIX Ultrashort Mid CapPairCorr
  0.66TDKTX Cleartrack 2015 ClassPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Equity Mutual Fund performing well and Equity Income 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 Equity Income'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.