Icon Financial Correlations

ICFSX Fund  USD 9.36  0.04  0.43%   
The current 90-days correlation between Icon Financial and Icon Information Technology is 0.89 (i.e., Very poor diversification). The correlation of Icon Financial 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.

Icon Financial Correlation With Market

Very poor diversification

The correlation between Icon Financial Fund and DJI is 0.84 (i.e., Very poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Icon Financial 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 Icon Financial 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 main economic indicators.

Moving together with Icon Mutual Fund

  0.7IOBAX Icon Bond FundPairCorr
  0.67IOBZX Icon Bond FundPairCorr
  0.66IOEZX Icon Equity IncomePairCorr
  0.91IOLZX Icon Long/shortPairCorr
  0.91ISTAX Icon Long/shortPairCorr
  0.81ICBAX Icon Natural ResourcesPairCorr
  0.81ICBMX Icon Natural ResourcesPairCorr
  1.0ICFAX Icon FinancialPairCorr
  0.96ICTEX Icon Information TecPairCorr
  0.96ICTTX Icon Information TecPairCorr
  0.66IEQAX Icon Equity IncomePairCorr
  0.73VFAIX Vanguard Financials IndexPairCorr
  0.83FRBCX Regional BankPairCorr
  0.82JRGRX Regional BankPairCorr
  0.86PRISX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.89DVFYX Davis FinancialPairCorr
  0.86RPFGX Davis FinancialPairCorr
  0.89DFFCX Davis FinancialPairCorr
  0.89FIDSX Financial ServicesPairCorr
  0.87FIDCX Financial IndustriesPairCorr
  0.74FTYPX Fidelity Freedom IndexPairCorr
  0.72FFBTX Fidelity Freedom BlendPairCorr
  0.7GAAVX Gmo Alternative AlloPairCorr
  0.83GCAVX Gmo Small CapPairCorr
  0.81GQLOX Gmo Quality FundPairCorr
  0.82GHVIX Gmo High YieldPairCorr
  0.89GMCQX Gmo Equity AllocationPairCorr
  0.65OGMCX Oppenheimer Gold SpecialPairCorr
  0.61SEGIX Guggenheim Large CapPairCorr
  0.8GGOSX Goldman Sachs GrowthPairCorr
  0.68CIBYX Columbia Income BuilderPairCorr
  0.66CEUFX Europacific GrowthPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Icon Mutual Fund performing well and Icon Financial 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 Icon Financial'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.