Parnassus Funds Financials

Please note that you must use caution to infer results of funds future performance. Investment returns and principal value will fluctuate so that investors' shares, when sold, may be worth more or less than their original cost.

Parnassus Funds' systematic risk plays a vital role in portfolio allocation when considering its stock to be added to a well-diversified portfolio. Parnassus Funds volatility which cannot be eliminated through diversification, requires returns over the risk-free rate. Over the long run, a well-diversified portfolio provides returns that match its exposure to systematic risk. In this case, investors face a trade-off between expected returns and systematic risk and, therefore, can only reduce a portfolio's exposure to systematic risk by sacrificing expected returns on the portfolio.

The output start index for this execution was twenty-four with a total number of output elements of thirty-seven. The Beta measures systematic risk based on how returns on Parnassus Funds correlated with the market. If Beta is less than 0 Parnassus Funds generally moves in the opposite direction as compared to the market. If Parnassus Funds Beta is about zero movement of price series is uncorrelated with the movement of the benchmark. if Beta is between zero and one Parnassus Funds is generally moves in the same direction as, but less than the movement of the market. For Beta = 1 movement of Parnassus Funds is generally in the same direction as the market. If Beta > 1 Parnassus Funds moves generally in the same direction as, but more than the movement of the benchmark.