IShares Core Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between iShares Core Balanced and NBI Sustainable Canadian is 0.46 (i.e., Very weak 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

Very weak diversification

The correlation between iShares Core Balanced and DJI is 0.47 (i.e., Very 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

0.99	VBAL	Vanguard Balanced	Pair Corr
0.83	ZMI	BMO Monthly Income	Pair Corr
0.93	ZESG	BMO Balanced ESG	Pair Corr
0.85	GBAL	iShares ESG Balanced	Pair Corr
0.89	ZBAL	BMO Balanced ETF	Pair Corr
0.95	XCNS	iShares Core Conservative	Pair Corr
0.93	MBAL	Mackenzie Balanced	Pair Corr
0.77	FCGI	Fidelity Global Monthly	Pair Corr
0.62	HSU	BetaPro SP 500	Pair Corr

Related Correlations Analysis

	NSCE	VGG	XEI	QCN	XGRO	XFH	VCE	VXC	XFN	XDV
NSCE		0.42	0.8	0.86	0.57	0.67	0.86	0.15	0.81	0.82	NSCE
VGG	0.42		0.42	0.43	0.77	0.49	0.44	0.76	0.33	0.34	VGG
XEI	0.8	0.42		0.86	0.57	0.75	0.87	0.19	0.89	0.94	XEI
QCN	0.86	0.43	0.86		0.73	0.83	1.0	0.28	0.95	0.92	QCN
XGRO	0.57	0.77	0.57	0.73		0.87	0.73	0.86	0.66	0.62	XGRO
XFH	0.67	0.49	0.75	0.83	0.87		0.83	0.61	0.85	0.84	XFH
VCE	0.86	0.44	0.87	1.0	0.73	0.83		0.29	0.96	0.93	VCE
VXC	0.15	0.76	0.19	0.28	0.86	0.61	0.29		0.23	0.21	VXC
XFN	0.81	0.33	0.89	0.95	0.66	0.85	0.96	0.23		0.98	XFN
XDV	0.82	0.34	0.94	0.92	0.62	0.84	0.93	0.21	0.98		XDV
	NSCE	VGG	XEI	QCN	XGRO	XFH	VCE	VXC	XFN	XDV

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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.

	Mean Deviation	Jensen Alpha	Sortino Ratio	Treynor Ratio	Semi Deviation	Expected Shortfall	Potential Upside	Value @Risk	Maximum Drawdown
NSCE	0.43	0.02	(0.03)	0.13	0.57	(0.49)	0.99	(0.71)	3.59
VGG	0.50	0.00	(0.06)	0.05	0.60	(0.55)	0.92	(0.83)	3.09
XEI	0.34	0.07	0.04	0.37	0.33	(0.35)	0.76	(0.75)	2.00
QCN	0.63	0.07	0.05	0.20	0.70	(0.65)	1.32	(1.39)	3.61
XGRO	0.46	0.01	(0.03)	0.09	0.55	(0.46)	0.90	(0.86)	2.54
XFH	0.47	0.07	0.05	0.24	0.61	(0.50)	0.93	(1.00)	3.05
VCE	0.60	0.06	0.04	0.19	0.70	(0.63)	1.26	(1.39)	3.30
VXC	0.55	0.01	(0.03)	0.07	0.76	(0.52)	1.24	(1.09)	3.40
XFN	0.47	0.13	0.13	0.37	0.43	(0.51)	1.25	(1.10)	3.55
XDV	0.32	0.13	0.21	0.59	0.00	(0.37)	0.86	(0.53)	1.95

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