Jacob Micro Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Jacob Micro Cap and Old Westbury Municipal is -0.18 (i.e., Good diversification). The correlation of Jacob Micro 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.

Jacob Micro Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between Jacob Micro Cap and DJI is 0.63 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Jacob Micro 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 Jacob Micro 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 price.

Moving together with Jacob Mutual Fund

  0.85JSIGX Jacob Small CapPairCorr
  0.61VSMAX Vanguard Small CapPairCorr
  0.61VSCIX Vanguard Small CapPairCorr
  0.84VSCPX Vanguard Small CapPairCorr
  0.61NAESX Vanguard Small CapPairCorr
  0.63FSSNX Fidelity Small CapPairCorr
  0.83DFSTX Us Small CapPairCorr
  0.72FTHSX Fuller Thaler BehavioralPairCorr
  0.73FTHNX Fuller Thaler BehavioralPairCorr
  0.67ALAYX Invesco Income AllocationPairCorr
  0.75PARDX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.62FCNTX Fidelity ContrafundPairCorr
  0.64CQTRX Columbia ThermostatPairCorr
  0.65GBMFX Gmo Benchmark FreePairCorr
  0.88TADGX T Rowe PricePairCorr

Moving against Jacob Mutual Fund

  0.62XNBHX Neuberger Berman IntPairCorr
  0.58XNXJX Nuveen New JerseyPairCorr
  0.53XDSMX Dreyfus StrategicPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Jacob Mutual Fund performing well and Jacob Micro 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 Jacob Micro'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.