Health Care Correlations

RYHEX Fund  USD 38.66  0.44  1.15%   
The current 90-days correlation between Health Care Fund and Guggenheim High Yield is 0.26 (i.e., Modest diversification). The correlation of Health Care 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.

Health Care Correlation With Market

Weak diversification

The correlation between Health Care Fund and DJI is 0.35 (i.e., Weak diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Health Care Fund 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 Health Care 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 income.

Moving together with Health Mutual Fund

  1.0RYHCX Health Care FundPairCorr
  0.67VGHAX Vanguard Health CarePairCorr
  0.67VGHCX Vanguard Health CarePairCorr
  0.73PRHSX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.73THISX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.98VHCIX Vanguard Health CarePairCorr
  0.87SHISX Blackrock Health SciencesPairCorr
  0.8SHSCX Blackrock Health SciencesPairCorr
  0.87SHSAX Blackrock Health SciencesPairCorr
  0.88SHSSX Blackrock Health SciencesPairCorr
  0.68FSPHX Health Care PortfolioPairCorr
  0.74BTMPX Ishares Msci EafePairCorr
  0.79BTMKX Blackrock InternationalPairCorr
  0.8MDIIX Blackrock Intern IndexPairCorr
  0.66ARTNX Artisan Select EquityPairCorr

Moving against Health Mutual Fund

  0.64RYWWX Inverse Emerging Markets Downward RallyPairCorr
  0.58RYIHX Inverse High YieldPairCorr
  0.49RYAQX Inverse Government LongPairCorr
  0.57COGVX Cognios Large CapPairCorr
  0.34LFRIX Floating RatePairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Health Mutual Fund performing well and Health Care 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 Health Care'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.