Mid Cap Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Mid Cap Value and Western Assets Emerging is 0.14 (i.e., Average diversification). The correlation of Mid Cap 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.

Mid Cap Correlation With Market

Very weak diversification

The correlation between Mid Cap Value and DJI is 0.53 (i.e., Very weak diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Mid Cap Value and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Trending Equities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Mid Cap Value. Also, note that the market value of any mutual fund could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as various price indices.

Moving together with Mid Mutual Fund

  0.89JVMAX John Hancock DisciplinedPairCorr
  0.89JVMIX John Hancock DisciplinedPairCorr
  0.96JMVZX Jpmorgan Mid CapPairCorr
  0.95JMVRX Jpmorgan Mid CapPairCorr
  0.95JMVQX Jpmorgan Mid CapPairCorr
  0.95JMVYX Jpmorgan Mid CapPairCorr
  0.96JMVPX Jpmorgan Mid CapPairCorr
  0.93VETAX Victory Sycamore EstPairCorr
  0.65HD Home DepotPairCorr

Moving against Mid Mutual Fund

  0.83UIPIX Ultrashort Mid CapPairCorr
  0.66FTCAX Templeton Strained BondPairCorr
  0.37FPXIX Fidelity Advisor 529PairCorr
  0.59CSCO Cisco SystemsPairCorr
  0.53GPICX Guidepath ConservativePairCorr
  0.47DD Dupont De NemoursPairCorr
  0.41IBM International BusinessPairCorr
  0.4XOM Exxon Mobil CorpPairCorr
  0.4KO Coca Cola Aggressive PushPairCorr
  0.35AA Alcoa CorpPairCorr
  0.34INTC Intel Aggressive PushPairCorr
  0.33MRK Merck Company Aggressive PushPairCorr
  0.32AXP American ExpressPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Mid Mutual Fund performing well and Mid Cap 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 Mid Cap'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.