seminar: timely topics for today’s business world mr. bernstein correlation january 2015
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Seminar: Timely Topics for Today’s Business World
Mr. Bernstein
CorrelationIn the world of finance, a statistical
measure of how two securities move in relation to each other.
Correlation is computed into what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1.
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Seminar: Timely Topics for Today’s Business World
Mr. Bernstein
CorrelationPerfect positive correlation (a correlation co-efficient of +1) implies
that as one security moves, either up or down, the other security will move in lockstep, in the same direction.
Perfect negative correlation means that if one security moves in either direction the security that is perfectly negatively correlated will move in the opposite direction.
If the correlation is 0, the movements of the securities are said to have no correlation; they are completely random.
In real life, perfectly correlated securities are rare, rather you will find securities with some degree of correlation
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Seminar: Timely Topics for Today’s Business World
Mr. Bernstein
Correlation TablesCorrelation, or Covariance, Tables, provide data
which feeds overall risk measurement of a portfolio of assets
Mixing assets with low correlation will reduce risk
Assets with high correlation will do little to reduce overall risk
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Seminar: Timely Topics for Today’s Business World
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Correlation among S&P 500 stocks over time
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Seminar: Timely Topics for Today’s Business World
Mr. Bernstein
Price Regression Hedge (PRH) – KO vs PEP
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Seminar: Timely Topics for Today’s Business World
Mr. Bernstein
Price Regression Hedge (PRH) – KO vs GOOG
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Seminar: Timely Topics for Today’s Business World
Mr. Bernstein
Price Regression Hedge (PRH) – KO vs Bond ETF