Selected American Correlations

SLADX Fund  USD 40.29  0.25  0.62%   
The current 90-days correlation between Selected American Shares and Gmo Resources is 0.24 (i.e., Modest diversification). The correlation of Selected American 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.

Selected American Correlation With Market

Modest diversification

The correlation between Selected American Shares and DJI is 0.29 (i.e., Modest diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Selected American Shares and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out World Market Map to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Selected American Shares. 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 unemployment.

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  0.88AMFCX American MutualPairCorr
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  0.76VIVAX Vanguard Value IndexPairCorr
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Moving against Selected Mutual Fund

  0.53PFE Pfizer IncPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Selected Mutual Fund performing well and Selected American 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 Selected American'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.