Goldman Sachs Correlations

GERCX Fund  USD 10.73  0.14  1.29%   
The current 90-days correlation between Goldman Sachs Emerging and Sterling Capital Behavioral is 0.51 (i.e., Very weak diversification). The correlation of Goldman Sachs 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.

Goldman Sachs Correlation With Market

Very weak diversification

The correlation between Goldman Sachs Emerging and DJI is 0.51 (i.e., Very weak diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Goldman Sachs Emerging and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Risk vs Return Analysis to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Goldman Sachs Emerging. 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 Goldman Mutual Fund

  0.99VEMAX Vanguard Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.99VEIEX Vanguard Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.99VEMIX Vanguard Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.99VEMRX Vanguard Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.98FWWNX American Funds NewPairCorr
  0.98FNFWX American Funds NewPairCorr
  0.98NEWFX New World FundPairCorr
  0.98NWFFX New World FundPairCorr
  0.98NEWCX New World FundPairCorr
  0.98ODVYX Oppenheimer DevelopingPairCorr
  0.76BRUFX Bruce Fund BrucePairCorr
  0.92SPGSX State Street PremierPairCorr
  0.88KF Korea ClosedPairCorr
  0.87GPICX Guidepath ConservativePairCorr
  0.94FPXIX Fidelity Advisor 529PairCorr
  0.8CAT CaterpillarPairCorr
  0.61BAC Bank of AmericaPairCorr
  0.85IBM International BusinessPairCorr
  0.78AA Alcoa CorpPairCorr

Moving against Goldman Mutual Fund

  0.52BA BoeingPairCorr
  0.5DIS Walt DisneyPairCorr
  0.45HD Home DepotPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Goldman Mutual Fund performing well and Goldman Sachs 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 Goldman Sachs' 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.