HGOAX Mutual Fund Quote

Most reasonable investors view market volatility as an opportunity to invest at a favorable price or to sell short against a bearish trend. THE HARTFORD's investment highlights are automatically generated signals that are significant enough to either complement your investing judgment regarding THE HARTFORD or challenge it. These highlights can help you better understand the position you are entering and avoid costly mistakes.

Investors will always prefer to have their portfolios divercified against different sectors. The broad sector allocation increases the possibility of making a profit or at least avoiding a loss. However, this may also reduce the expected return on HGOAX Mutual Fund. Generally, it depends on diversification level and type but usually, the broader the sector allocation, the less risk can be expected from holding HGOAX Mutual Fund, and the less return is expected.

Institutional investors that are interested in enforcing a sector tilt in their portfolio can use exchange-traded funds, such as THE HARTFORD GROWTH Mutual Fund, as a low-cost alternative to building a custom portfolio. So, using sector ETFs to diversify your portfolio can be a profitable strategy. However, no matter what sectors are desirable at a given time, no single industry should ever make up more than 20 percent of your stock portfolio.

Based on a normal probability distribution, the odds of THE HARTFORD jumping above the current price in 90 days from now is about 21.27%. The THE HARTFORD GROWTH probability density function shows the probability of THE HARTFORD mutual fund to fall within a particular range of prices over 90 days. Assuming the 90 days horizon the mutual fund has a beta coefficient of 1.1717. This usually indicates as the benchmark fluctuates upward, the company is expected to outperform it on average. However, if the benchmark returns are projected to be negative, THE HARTFORD will likely underperform. Additionally, the company has an alpha of 0.1789, implying that it can generate a 0.18 percent excess return over NYSE Composite after adjusting for the inherited market risk (beta).

Investors will always prefer to have the highest possible return on investment while minimizing volatility. THE HARTFORD market risk premium is the additional return an investor will receive from holding THE HARTFORD long position in a well-diversified portfolio. The market premium is part of the Capital Asset Pricing Model (CAPM), which most analysts and investors use to calculate the acceptable rate of return on investment in THE HARTFORD. At the center of the CAPM is the concept of risk and reward, which is usually communicated by investors using alpha and beta measures. Although THE HARTFORD's alpha and beta are two of the key measurements used to evaluate THE HARTFORD's performance over the market, the standard measures of volatility play an important role as well.