Delaware Healthcare Correlations

DLHIX Fund  USD 23.19  0.15  0.64%   
The current 90-days correlation between Delaware Healthcare and Ab Global Risk is 0.6 (i.e., Poor diversification). The correlation of Delaware Healthcare 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.

Delaware Healthcare Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between Delaware Healthcare Fund and DJI is 0.62 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Delaware Healthcare Fund and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Investing Opportunities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Delaware Healthcare Fund. 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 gross domestic product.

Moving together with Delaware Mutual Fund

  0.62OCFIX Optimum Fixed IncomePairCorr
  1.0DLHCX Delaware HealthcarePairCorr
  1.0DLHAX Delaware HealthcarePairCorr
  1.0DLRHX Delaware HealthcarePairCorr
  0.61OIFIX Optimum Fixed IncomePairCorr
  0.62DPCFX Delaware DiversifiedPairCorr
  0.61DPDFX Delaware DiversifiedPairCorr
  0.61DPFFX Delaware DiversifiedPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Delaware Mutual Fund performing well and Delaware Healthcare 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 Delaware Healthcare'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.