Hennessy Balanced Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Hennessy Balanced and Hennessy Total Return is 0.98 (i.e., Almost no diversification). The correlation of Hennessy Balanced 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.

Hennessy Balanced Correlation With Market

Average diversification

The correlation between Hennessy Balanced Fund and DJI is 0.19 (i.e., Average diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Hennessy Balanced Fund 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 Hennessy Balanced 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 bureau of labor statistics.

Moving together with Hennessy Mutual Fund

  0.77HICGX Hennessy Nerstone GrowthPairCorr
  0.86HICVX Hennessy Nerstone ValuePairCorr
  0.83HIMDX Hennessy Nerstone MidPairCorr
  0.88HILGX Hennessy Nerstone LargePairCorr
  0.85HJPIX Hennessy JapanPairCorr
  0.85HJPNX Hennessy JapanPairCorr
  1.0HDOGX Hennessy Total ReturnPairCorr
  0.83HEIFX Hennessy Equity AndPairCorr
  0.83HEIIX Hennessy Equity AndPairCorr
  0.61GASFX Hennessy Gas UtilityPairCorr
  0.9HFCSX Hennessy FocusPairCorr
  0.9HFCVX Hennessy Nerstone ValuePairCorr
  0.79HFCGX Hennessy Nerstone GrowthPairCorr
  0.9HFCIX Hennessy FocusPairCorr
  0.88HFLGX Hennessy Nerstone LargePairCorr
  0.85HFMDX Hennessy Nerstone MidPairCorr
  0.84VWINX Vanguard Wellesley IncomePairCorr
  0.85VWIAX Vanguard Wellesley IncomePairCorr
  0.72BKMIX Blackrock Multi AssetPairCorr
  0.88HBLTX Hartford BalancedPairCorr
  0.89HBLRX Hartford BalancedPairCorr
  0.88HBLSX Hartford BalancedPairCorr
  0.88HBLVX Hartford BalancedPairCorr
  0.88HBLYX Hartford BalancedPairCorr
  0.89HBLCX Hartford BalancedPairCorr
  0.88HBLIX Hartford BalancedPairCorr

Moving against Hennessy Mutual Fund

  0.42HMSFX Hennessy Bp MidstreamPairCorr
  0.42HMSIX Hennessy Bp MidstreamPairCorr
  0.83NTG Tortoise Mlp ClosedPairCorr
  0.79GAEGX Columbia Large CapPairCorr
  0.77TTP Tortoise Pipeline AndPairCorr
  0.52IIRFX Voya Russia FundPairCorr
  0.51LETRX Voya Russia FundPairCorr
  0.51IWRFX Voya Russia FundPairCorr
  0.42CISGX Touchstone Sands CapitalPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Hennessy Mutual Fund performing well and Hennessy Balanced 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 Hennessy Balanced'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.