IShares Core Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between iShares Core Balanced and iShares Core Growth is 0.97 (i.e., Almost no diversification). A perfect positive correlation (i.e., a correlation coefficient of +1) implies that as IShares Core moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if iShares Core Balanced moves in either direction, the perfectly negatively correlated security will move in the opposite direction.

IShares Core Correlation With Market

Weak diversification

The correlation between iShares Core Balanced and DJI is 0.38 (i.e., Weak diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding iShares Core Balanced and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
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Moving together with IShares Etf

  1.0VBAL Vanguard BalancedPairCorr
  0.95VCNS Vanguard Conservative ETFPairCorr
  0.96ZMI BMO Monthly IncomePairCorr
  0.98GBAL iShares ESG BalancedPairCorr
  0.99ZBAL BMO Balanced ETFPairCorr
  0.94MBAL Mackenzie BalancedPairCorr
  0.78PIN Purpose Monthly IncomePairCorr
  0.73PRP Purpose ConservativePairCorr
  0.95HCON Global X ConservativePairCorr
  0.97XIU iShares SPTSX 60PairCorr
  0.98XSP iShares Core SPPairCorr
  0.98XIC iShares Core SPTSXPairCorr
  0.98ZCN BMO SPTSX CappedPairCorr
  0.97ZSP BMO SP 500PairCorr
  0.97VFV Vanguard SP 500PairCorr
  0.92ZEB BMO SPTSX EqualPairCorr

Moving against IShares Etf

  0.64TCLB TD Canadian LongPairCorr

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IShares Core Constituents Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between IShares Etf performing well and IShares Core ETF 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 IShares Core'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.

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