Hennessy Japan Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Hennessy Japan Small and Hennessy Japan Fund is 0.71 (i.e., Poor diversification). The correlation of Hennessy Japan 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.

Hennessy Japan Correlation With Market

Modest diversification

The correlation between Hennessy Japan Small and DJI is 0.26 (i.e., Modest diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Hennessy Japan Small 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 Hennessy Japan Small. 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 state.

Moving together with Hennessy Mutual Fund

  0.88HICGX Hennessy Nerstone GrowthPairCorr
  0.93HICVX Hennessy Nerstone ValuePairCorr
  0.92HIMDX Hennessy Nerstone MidPairCorr
  0.95HILFX Hennessy Large CapPairCorr
  0.92HILGX Hennessy Nerstone LargePairCorr
  0.76HISFX Hennessy Small CapPairCorr
  0.86HJPIX Hennessy JapanPairCorr
  0.86HJPNX Hennessy JapanPairCorr
  1.0HJSIX Hennessy Japan SmallPairCorr
  0.95HLFNX Hennessy Large CapPairCorr
  0.84HNRGX Hennessy Bp EnergyPairCorr
  0.84HNRIX Hennessy Bp EnergyPairCorr
  0.76HSFNX Hennessy Small CapPairCorr
  0.92HBFBX Hennessy BalancedPairCorr
  0.93HTECX Hennessy TechnologyPairCorr
  0.92HTCIX Hennessy TechnologyPairCorr
  0.89HDOGX Hennessy Total ReturnPairCorr
  0.87HEIFX Hennessy Equity AndPairCorr
  0.91HEIIX Hennessy Equity AndPairCorr
  0.85HFCSX Hennessy Focus Steady GrowthPairCorr
  0.93HFCVX Hennessy Nerstone ValuePairCorr
  0.88HFCGX Hennessy Nerstone GrowthPairCorr
  0.84HFCIX Hennessy Focus Steady GrowthPairCorr
  0.92HFLGX Hennessy Nerstone LargePairCorr
  0.91HFMDX Hennessy Nerstone MidPairCorr
  0.93RJAIX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.96FJPNX Fidelity JapanPairCorr
  0.99DFJSX Japanese Small PanyPairCorr
  0.93BAFJX Brown AdvisoryPairCorr
  0.96FIQLX Fidelity JapanPairCorr
  0.88MJFOX Matthews JapanPairCorr
  0.88MIJFX Matthews JapanPairCorr
  0.93PRJPX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.98FJSCX Fidelity Japan SmallerPairCorr
  0.84FSJPX Fidelity Sai JapanPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Hennessy Mutual Fund performing well and Hennessy Japan 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 Hennessy Japan'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.