These days, I’m often asked what is on my radar screen—meaning, what do I see that could be potentially interesting or alarming? But the question is a bit off-center; on a radar screen all you see are blips that you have to interpret and, at least in terms of my experience, the only way to ensure the accuracy of your interpretation is to run with the radar on during sunny days when you can see what the blip translates into. If you wait for stormy days to try and figure out what’s on your radar screen, your odds of being... Read more
If you lived according to the Weather Channel’s views, you’d never leave your house or ever head to a beach. Similarly, if your investment barometer was set by the channels you watch and the papers you read, you’d never put a dime to work.... Read more
These days, I’m often asked what is on my and FSI’s radar screen—meaning what do I see and what does FSI’s proprietary trading system see that could be potentially interesting or alarming? FSI and I have been interpreting bull, bear and indifferent market blips for 20 years. As to what FSI sees on its market radar screens: I’ll get to all the blips (and their correlated negative and positive momentum) that it sees immediately in your July issue.... Read more
| Model | YTD | 5-Year (Annualized) |
|---|---|---|
| Global Quant Growth | 17.4% | 9.4% |
| Growth | 12.9% | 6.9% |
| Growth & Income | 10.1% | 6.1% |
| Income | 7.8% | 4.2% |
| Annuity Growth | 15.9% | 6.4% |
| Annuity Growth & Income | 13.4% | 5.6% |
| S&P 500 | 18.5% | 10.7% |
| Fidelity Investor Index | 12.0% | 5.7% |
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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