Assuming 30 trading days horizon, CoSine Communications Inc. is expected to under-perform the Fairfax. In addition to that, CoSine is 3.35 times more volatile than Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited. It trades about -0.05 of its total potential returns per unit of risk. Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited is currently generating about -0.05 per unit of volatility. If you would invest 40,330 in Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited on April 25, 2012 and sell it today you would lose (504) from holding Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited or give up 1.25% of portfolio value over 30 days.
Diversification
Very good diversification
Overlapping area represents amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding CoSine Communications Inc. and Fairfax Financial Holdings Lim in the same portfolio (assuming nothing else is changed)
Over the last 30 days Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited has generated negative risk-adjusted returns adding no value to investors with long positions.