Matthews Asia Correlations

MSMLX Fund  USD 25.65  0.28  1.08%   
The current 90-days correlation between Matthews Asia Small and Virtus Emerging Markets is -0.05 (i.e., Good diversification). The correlation of Matthews Asia 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.

Matthews Asia Correlation With Market

Very weak diversification

The correlation between Matthews Asia Small 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 Matthews Asia Small and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Correlation Analysis to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Matthews Asia 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 bureau of economic analysis.

Moving together with Matthews Mutual Fund

  1.0MISMX Matthews Asia SmallPairCorr
  0.72NHS Neuberger Berman HighPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Matthews Mutual Fund performing well and Matthews Asia 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 Matthews Asia'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.
Mean DeviationJensen AlphaSortino RatioTreynor RatioSemi DeviationExpected ShortfallPotential UpsideValue @RiskMaximum Drawdown
HEMZX  0.59  0.03 (0.01)(0.29) 0.77 
 1.34 
 4.35 
HIEMX  0.59  0.01 (0.01) 0.06  0.77 
 1.34 
 4.35 
MICFX  1.04  0.00 (0.01) 0.04  1.39 
 2.08 
 8.10 
PEDIX  0.72  0.07  0.05  0.29  0.67 
 1.99 
 4.11 
MSIQX  0.68 (0.07) 0.00 (0.03) 0.00 
 1.18 
 3.58 
HESAX  0.55  0.04  0.00 (0.81) 0.80 
 1.27 
 4.23 
BUFSX  0.95 (0.07)(0.04)(0.01) 1.23 
 2.07 
 6.29 
PRCNX  0.62 (0.03)(0.05) 0.00  0.77 
 0.95 
 3.50 
OISGX  0.99 (0.02) 0.00  0.03  1.28 
 2.12 
 6.36 
OMAH  0.42 (0.01)(0.05) 0.02  0.55 
 1.12 
 2.86