Fittingly, and as expected, we ended October on a spooky note. Yet, the anticipated second wave of the coronavirus appears to have frightened investors who knew it was coming. Unfortunately, this is not a movie.... Read more
Thankfully, the markets continue to rally. And on a thankful note, I want to share my 2020 Thanksgiving Blessing with all of you who have gathered around Fidelity Investor’s table for decades, years or just joining us now.... Read more
Here and now, post-election dust-ups are likely to be a source of recurring friction, and the whirlwinds of the pandemic are picking up in scope, scale, rapidity and morbidity, there’s not much else to report… But of course, that’s more than enough to have to contend with.... Read more
| Model | YTD | 5-Year (Annualized) |
|---|---|---|
| Global Quant Growth | 1.2% | 10.3% |
| Global Quant Income | 4.0% | N/A |
| Growth | 7.2% | 9.1% |
| Factor+ | N/A | N/A |
| Growth & Income | 0.1% | 6.6% |
| Income | -1.8% | 3.8% |
| Annuity Growth | 4.6% | 8.6% |
| Annuity Growth & Income | 2.3% | 7.3% |
| S&P 500 | 2.8% | 11.7% |
| Fidelity Investor Index | 3.7% | 7.0% |
A high correlation between funds may mean that your portfolio of funds is not as diverse as you might want it to be. While other tools may compare funds only to the S&P 500, you can use this tool to determine how closely the performance of one Fidelity fund tracks that of any other Fidelity fund. Compare all the funds that you own. To diversify, look for funds that have low correlation with one another.
Jim Lowell is Editor-in-Chief of the award-winning independent newsletters Fidelity Investor and Fidelity Sector Investor. Through his newsletters, Jim advises individual investors seeking superior performance from their Fidelity investments. He has also written several books on investing, Investing from Scratch (revised edition, Penguin, 2006) and What Every Fidelity Investor Needs to Know (Wiley, 2007) among them. Read more
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