Guidestone Funds Correlations

GMBYX Fund   9.56  0.04  0.42%   
The current 90-days correlation between Guidestone Funds and Jp Morgan Smartretirement is 0.06 (i.e., Significant diversification). The correlation of Guidestone Funds 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.

Guidestone Funds Correlation With Market

Significant diversification

The correlation between Guidestone Funds and DJI is 0.07 (i.e., Significant diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Guidestone Funds 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. 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 manufacturing.

Moving together with Guidestone Mutual Fund

  0.69GGBFX Global Bond FundPairCorr
  0.72GLDYX Low Duration BondPairCorr
  0.76GLDZX Low Duration BondPairCorr
  0.89GMDYX Medium Duration BondPairCorr
  0.71GMDZX Medium Duration BondPairCorr
  0.88GMBZX Guidestone FundsPairCorr

Moving against Guidestone Mutual Fund

  0.33GFSZX Strategic AlternativesPairCorr
  0.31GFSYX Strategic AlternativesPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Guidestone Mutual Fund performing well and Guidestone Funds 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 Guidestone Funds' 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.