Permanent Portfolio Correlations

PRPFX Fund  USD 74.87  0.95  1.25%   
The current 90-days correlation between Permanent Portfolio Class and Blackrock Health Sciences is 0.23 (i.e., Modest diversification). The correlation of Permanent Portfolio 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.

Permanent Portfolio Correlation With Market

Average diversification

The correlation between Permanent Portfolio Class and DJI is 0.17 (i.e., Average diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Permanent Portfolio Class and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Your Equity Center to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Permanent Portfolio Class. 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 Permanent Mutual Fund

  0.97PRPHX Permanent Portfolio ClassPairCorr
  1.0PRPDX Permanent Portfolio ClassPairCorr
  0.87PRTBX Short Term TreasuryPairCorr
  0.61PRVDX Versatile Bond PortfolioPairCorr
  0.87PAGDX Aggressive GrowthPairCorr
  0.87PAGHX Aggressive GrowthPairCorr
  0.88PAGRX Aggressive GrowthPairCorr
  0.79ABALX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.9BALCX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.79BALFX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.9RLBCX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.91RLBBX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.8CLBAX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.9CLBEX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.9RLBFX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.8CII Blackrock EnhancedPairCorr
  0.71ETV Eaton Vance TaxPairCorr
  0.9CLM Cornerstone StrategicPairCorr
  0.77CRF Cornerstone Total ReturnPairCorr
  0.65NFJ Virtus Dividend InterestPairCorr
  0.73FRGAX Growth Allocation IndexPairCorr
  0.82STABX Pioneer Short TermPairCorr
  0.87LSBDX Loomis Sayles BondPairCorr
  0.77RNEAX Rationalrgn Hedged EquityPairCorr
  0.94LBETX Lgm Risk ManagedPairCorr
  0.67LIPIX Blackrock Lifepath IdxPairCorr
  0.66EMGCX Wells Fargo EmergingPairCorr
  0.64PSPFX Global ResourcesPairCorr

Moving against Permanent Mutual Fund

  0.37FBONX American Funds AmericanPairCorr
  0.37FBAFX American Funds AmericanPairCorr
  0.78IFN India ClosedPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Permanent Mutual Fund performing well and Permanent Portfolio 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 Permanent Portfolio'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.