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Asset Correlations between Countries

Country Correlation Matrix

The following table shows return correlations between various countries (as represented by exchange traded funds) over the past six months.

^GSPC EZA EWQ EWG EWC EWD EWU EWA EWJ EWY EWT EWZ ECH EWW EIS Return StdDev
United States ^GSPC 1.6% 1.3%
South Africa EZA 0.86 28.6% 2.2%
France EWQ 0.89 0.83 -18.0% 2.3%
Germany EWG 0.88 0.83 0.97 -2.7% 1.7%
Canada EWC 0.93 0.87 0.84 0.85 11.5% 1.5%
Sweden EWD 0.89 0.85 0.91 0.91 0.86 21.0% 2.5%
United Kingdom EWU 0.90 0.84 0.93 0.91 0.86 0.89 -8.1% 1.8%
Australia EWA 0.91 0.85 0.85 0.83 0.89 0.84 0.85 -4.5% 2.3%
Japan EWJ 0.75 0.68 0.77 0.78 0.73 0.73 0.74 0.76 -8.4% 1.1%
South Korea EWY 0.84 0.80 0.80 0.79 0.84 0.81 0.82 0.89 0.74 11.3% 1.9%
Taiwan EWT 0.77 0.76 0.77 0.76 0.76 0.76 0.75 0.84 0.71 0.87 4.5% 1.5%
Brazil EWZ 0.87 0.85 0.83 0.82 0.88 0.85 0.83 0.90 0.74 0.84 0.76 9.1% 2.2%
Chile ECH 0.68 0.69 0.68 0.67 0.69 0.70 0.70 0.69 0.54 0.68 0.59 0.72 24.6% 1.3%
Mexico EWW 0.91 0.89 0.86 0.86 0.92 0.87 0.87 0.90 0.75 0.86 0.80 0.91 0.72 19.2% 1.7%
Israel EIS 0.82 0.75 0.80 0.78 0.77 0.79 0.76 0.80 0.66 0.72 0.71 0.74 0.59 0.79 -22.6% 1.6%
Turkey TUR 0.82 0.80 0.84 0.83 0.80 0.83 0.79 0.80 0.63 0.76 0.73 0.81 0.68 0.81 0.75 20.4% 2.5%

Period: [1 Mo] [3 Mo] [6 Mo] [1 Yr] [2 Yr]

Intra-portfolio diversification = 0.80
Portfolio return = 4.9%
Start Date = 2010-01-27
End Date = 2010-07-28

Each cell represents the correlation between the two corresponding assets.

Cell Color Description Diversification Benefit
-0.65 Asset pair with negative correlation Excellent Diversification
-0.15 Asset pair with slight negative correlation Good Diversification
0.2 Asset pair with mild positive correlation Moderate Diversification
0.8 Asset pair with strong positive correlation Poor Diversification

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