Matthews Asia Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Matthews Asia Innovators and Matthews Pacific Tiger is 0.98 (i.e., Almost no diversification). The correlation of Matthews Asia 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.

Matthews Asia Correlation With Market

Very weak diversification

The correlation between Matthews Asia Innovators and DJI is 0.59 (i.e., Very weak diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Matthews Asia Innovators and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Correlation Analysis to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Matthews Asia Innovators. 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 census.

Moving together with Matthews Mutual Fund

  0.99MPACX Matthews Asia GrowthPairCorr
  0.77MAPTX Matthews Pacific TigerPairCorr
  0.74MSMLX Matthews Asia SmallPairCorr
  0.89MCHFX Matthews ChinaPairCorr
  0.82MCSMX Matthews China SmallPairCorr
  0.65MEGMX Matthews Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.99MIAPX Matthews Asia GrowthPairCorr
  0.89MICFX Matthews ChinaPairCorr
  0.69MIEFX Matthews Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  1.0MITEX Matthews Asia Innovators Steady GrowthPairCorr
  0.73MISMX Matthews Asia SmallPairCorr
  0.77PNSIX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.78PRASX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.84TRZNX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.87FSEAX Fidelity Emerging Asia Steady GrowthPairCorr

Moving against Matthews Mutual Fund

  0.74RFXCX Rational Special SitPairCorr
  0.6NXJ Nuveen New JerseyPairCorr
  0.59CUSDX Six Circles UltraPairCorr
  0.41MSPYX Blackrock Pa MuniPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Matthews Mutual Fund performing well and Matthews Asia 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 Matthews Asia'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.