Manulife Financial Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Manulife Financial Corp and Prudential Financial is 0.55 (i.e., Very weak diversification). The correlation of Manulife 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.

Manulife Financial Correlation With Market

Modest diversification

The correlation between Manulife Financial Corp and DJI is 0.25 (i.e., Modest diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Manulife Financial Corp 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 Manulife Financial Corp. Also, note that the market value of any company could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in census.

Moving together with Manulife Stock

  0.81FG FG Annuities LifePairCorr
  0.7CNO CNO Financial Group Earnings Call This WeekPairCorr
  0.73GNW Genworth FinancialPairCorr
  0.75PRI PrimericaPairCorr
  0.69PRU Prudential Financial Earnings Call This WeekPairCorr
  0.88DHIL Diamond Hill InvestmentPairCorr

Moving against Manulife Stock

  0.32MET-PA MetLife Preferred StockPairCorr

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Correlation Matchups

Over a given time period, the two securities move together when the Correlation Coefficient is positive. Conversely, the two assets move in opposite directions when the Correlation Coefficient is negative. Determining your positions' relationship to each other is valuable for analyzing and projecting your portfolio's future expected return and risk.
High positive correlations   
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LNCJXN
FGPRU
BHFAPJXN
AFLLNC
  
High negative correlations   
BHFAPMET-PA
MET-PAJXN
MET-PAAFL
BHFAPUNM
MET-PAPRU
MET-PALNC

Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Manulife Stock performing well and Manulife Financial Company 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 Manulife 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.
Mean DeviationJensen AlphaSortino RatioTreynor RatioSemi DeviationExpected ShortfallPotential UpsideValue @RiskMaximum Drawdown
PRU  1.14 (0.04) 0.00 (0.05) 0.00 
 2.08 
 9.90 
MET  1.13  0.06  0.01  0.20  1.70 
 2.34 
 9.98 
UNM  0.94  0.31  0.27  1.04  0.60 
 1.76 
 11.45 
JXN  1.82 (0.09) 0.00 (0.03) 0.00 
 3.86 
 20.41 
LNC  1.52  0.15  0.05  0.34  1.88 
 3.45 
 18.27 
AFL  0.93 (0.05) 0.00 (0.09) 0.00 
 1.49 
 7.00 
BHF  1.79  0.41  0.18  1.18  1.65 
 3.70 
 17.94 
FG  1.76  0.15  0.05  0.29  2.20 
 3.75 
 23.15 
MET-PA  0.34  0.04 (0.06) 0.49  0.31 
 0.59 
 2.87 
BHFAP  1.03 (0.24) 0.00 (0.57) 0.00 
 1.48 
 6.07