Heartland Mid Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Heartland Mid Cap and Ab Relative Value is 0.86 (i.e., Very poor diversification). The correlation of Heartland Mid 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.

Heartland Mid Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between Heartland Mid Cap and DJI is 0.79 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Heartland Mid Cap 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 Heartland Mid Cap. 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 unemployment.

Moving together with Heartland Mutual Fund

  0.75HNTVX Heartland ValuePairCorr
  0.8HNVIX Heartland Value PlusPairCorr
  1.0HRMDX Heartland Mid CapPairCorr
  0.68HRVIX Heartland Value PlusPairCorr
  0.75HRTVX Heartland ValuePairCorr
  0.86FLPKX Fidelity Low PricedPairCorr
  0.65FLPSX Fidelity Low PricedPairCorr
  0.66VMVAX Vanguard Mid CapPairCorr
  0.76JVMAX John Hancock DisciplinedPairCorr
  0.75JVMIX John Hancock DisciplinedPairCorr
  0.67VMVIX Vanguard Mid CapPairCorr
  0.69JMVZX Jpmorgan Mid CapPairCorr
  0.68JMVYX Jpmorgan Mid CapPairCorr
  0.71TIGGX Goldman Sachs TaxPairCorr
  0.73RRTMX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.83MSVVX Mesirow Financial SmallPairCorr
  0.68MVTRX Transamerica Mid CapPairCorr
  0.63QUAZX Ab Small CapPairCorr
  0.81UBVSX Undiscovered ManagersPairCorr
  0.75PEVAX Pace Smallmedium ValuePairCorr

Moving against Heartland Mutual Fund

  0.6USPIX Profunds UltrashortPairCorr
  0.59USPSX Profunds UltrashortPairCorr
  0.76UIPIX Ultrashort Mid CapPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Heartland Mutual Fund performing well and Heartland Mid 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 Heartland Mid'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.