Vanguard Total Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Vanguard Total Inter and Tiaa Cref Lifestyle Moderate is 0.19 (i.e., Average diversification). The correlation of Vanguard Total 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.

Vanguard Total Correlation With Market

Modest diversification

The correlation between Vanguard Total International and DJI is 0.2 (i.e., Modest diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Vanguard Total International 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 Vanguard Total International. 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 Vanguard Mutual Fund

  1.0VTILX Vanguard Total InterPairCorr
  1.0VTIFX Vanguard Total InterPairCorr
  0.94VTABX Vanguard Total InterPairCorr
  0.89PFOAX Pimco Foreign BondPairCorr
  0.91PFOCX Pimco Foreign BondPairCorr
  0.88PFONX Pimco International BondPairCorr
  0.69VSGAX Vanguard Small CapPairCorr
  0.7VWEAX Vanguard High YieldPairCorr
  0.61SHYIX Guggenheim High YieldPairCorr
  0.73ATACX Atac Inflation RotationPairCorr
  0.72VFIAX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.7FOCKX Fidelity Otc PortfolioPairCorr
  0.75TFAGX Tfa Alphagen GrowthPairCorr
  0.71FHIFX Fidelity Focused HighPairCorr
  0.69ASCGX Lebenthal Lisanti SmallPairCorr
  0.68VSMAX Vanguard Small CapPairCorr
  0.63ETILX Eventide GileadPairCorr

Moving against Vanguard Mutual Fund

  0.85HIMUX Pioneer Map HighPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Vanguard Mutual Fund performing well and Vanguard Total 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 Vanguard Total'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.