State Farm Correlations

STFBX Fund  USD 99.18  0.64  0.64%   
The current 90-days correlation between State Farm Balanced and State Farm International is -0.13 (i.e., Good diversification). The correlation of State Farm 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.

State Farm Correlation With Market

Very poor diversification

The correlation between State Farm Balanced and DJI is 0.88 (i.e., Very poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding State Farm Balanced 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 State Farm Balanced. 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 bureau of labor statistics.

Moving together with State Mutual Fund

  1.0STFGX State Farm GrowthPairCorr
  0.88SFBDX State Farm MunicipalPairCorr
  0.77SFITX State Farm InterimPairCorr
  0.87SIIAX State Farm InternationalPairCorr
  0.88ABALX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.88BALCX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.91BALFX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.95FBONX American Funds AmericanPairCorr
  0.95FBAFX American Funds AmericanPairCorr
  0.91RLBCX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.9RLBBX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.88CLBAX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.91CLBEX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.91RLBFX American BalancedPairCorr
  0.72PFN Pimco Income StrategyPairCorr
  0.87FGDTX Gold Portfolio Fidelity Steady GrowthPairCorr
  0.93JMSSX Jpmorgan Smartretirement*PairCorr
  0.86FRKSX Nuveen Kansas MunicipalPairCorr
  0.9MIPIX Matthews Asia DividendPairCorr
  0.88DPRSX Delaware ReitPairCorr
  0.93BDOAX Blackrock Acwi ExusPairCorr
  0.89PFPFX Poplar Forest PartnersPairCorr
  0.88PRHCX Prudential High YieldPairCorr
  0.83TGREX Tcw Global RealPairCorr
  0.92MMNJX MmnjxPairCorr
  0.82DBLGX Doubleline Global BondPairCorr
  0.95VEVIX Victory Sycamore EstPairCorr
  0.92MVIIX Praxis Value IndexPairCorr
  0.71VFIDX Vanguard IntermediatePairCorr
  0.88ARTNX Artisan Select EquityPairCorr
  0.92FLIFX Fidelity Freedom IndexPairCorr
  0.86HDGYX Hartford DividendPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between State Mutual Fund performing well and State Farm 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 State Farm'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.