Hennessy Total Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Hennessy Total Return and Hennessy Balanced Fund is 0.97 (i.e., Almost no diversification). The correlation of Hennessy Total 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 Total Correlation With Market

Modest diversification

The correlation between Hennessy Total Return and DJI is 0.26 (i.e., Modest diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Hennessy Total Return 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 Total Return. 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 price.

Moving together with Hennessy Mutual Fund

  0.78HICGX Hennessy Nerstone GrowthPairCorr
  0.96HICVX Hennessy Nerstone ValuePairCorr
  0.8HIMDX Hennessy Nerstone MidPairCorr
  0.87HILGX Hennessy Nerstone LargePairCorr
  0.72HISFX Hennessy Small CapPairCorr
  0.73HJPIX Hennessy JapanPairCorr
  0.73HJPNX Hennessy JapanPairCorr
  0.72HSFNX Hennessy Small CapPairCorr
  0.98HBFBX Hennessy BalancedPairCorr
  0.78HEIFX Hennessy Equity AndPairCorr
  0.78HEIIX Hennessy Equity AndPairCorr
  0.74GASFX Hennessy Gas UtilityPairCorr
  0.77HFCSX Hennessy FocusPairCorr
  0.96HFCVX Hennessy Nerstone ValuePairCorr
  0.81HFCGX Hennessy Nerstone GrowthPairCorr
  0.77HFCIX Hennessy FocusPairCorr
  0.9HFLGX Hennessy Nerstone LargePairCorr
  0.8HFMDX Hennessy Nerstone MidPairCorr
  0.74HGASX Hennessy Gas UtilityPairCorr
  0.8FBONX American Funds AmericanPairCorr
  0.8FBAFX American Funds AmericanPairCorr
  0.8ABALX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.8BALCX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.8BALFX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.8RLBCX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.8RLBBX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.8CLBAX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.8CLBEX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.8RLBFX American BalancedPairCorr

Moving against Hennessy Mutual Fund

  0.68UIPIX Ultrashort Mid CapPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

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