High Income Correlations

AHIVX Fund  USD 8.79  0.01  0.11%   
The current 90-days correlation between High Income Fund and Jpmorgan Smartretirement Blend is 0.49 (i.e., Very weak diversification). The correlation of High Income is a statistical measure of how it moves in relation to other instruments. This measure is expressed in what is known as the correlation coefficient, which ranges between -1 and +1. A correlation greater than 0.8 is generally described as strong, whereas a correlation less than 0.5 is generally considered weak. If the correlation is 0, the equities are not correlated; they are entirely random.

High Income Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between High Income Fund and DJI is 0.79 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding High Income Fund and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
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Moving together with High Mutual Fund

  0.99AHTFX American High IncomePairCorr
  0.93AHTCX American High IncomePairCorr
  0.93AHITX American High IncomePairCorr
  0.93BHYCX Blackrock Hi YldPairCorr
  0.81BHYIX Blackrock High YieldPairCorr
  0.99BHYSX Blackrock Hi YldPairCorr
  0.94BHYAX Blackrock High YieldPairCorr
  0.99VWEHX Vanguard High YieldPairCorr
  0.99VWEAX Vanguard High YieldPairCorr
  0.98PHYZX Prudential High YieldPairCorr
  0.67PMPIX Precious Metals UltrPairCorr
  0.67PMPSX Precious Metals UltrPairCorr
  0.83QRSAX Fpa Queens RoadPairCorr
  0.82BA BoeingPairCorr
  0.7WMT Walmart Common StockPairCorr
  0.63MRK Merck Company Earnings Call This WeekPairCorr
  0.69INTC IntelPairCorr
  0.8AA Alcoa CorpPairCorr

Moving against High Mutual Fund

  0.54T ATT Inc Earnings Call This WeekPairCorr
  0.34MSFT MicrosoftPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between High Mutual Fund performing well and High Income Mutual Fund doing well as a business compared to the competition. There are so many exceptions to the norm that investors cannot definitively determine what's good or bad unless they analyze High Income's multiple risk-adjusted performance indicators across the competitive landscape. These indicators are quantitative in nature and help investors forecast volatility and risk-adjusted expected returns across various positions.
Mean DeviationJensen AlphaSortino RatioTreynor RatioSemi DeviationExpected ShortfallPotential UpsideValue @RiskMaximum Drawdown
SHYPX  0.09  0.02 (0.24) 1.65  0.00 
 0.22 
 0.64 
XFLT  0.72 (0.11) 0.00 (0.34) 0.00 
 1.36 
 4.15 
TFILX  0.07  0.00 (0.25) 0.01  0.00 
 0.11 
 0.75 
PRTAX  0.08  0.00 (0.29)(0.03) 0.01 
 0.11 
 0.75 
CPATX  0.10  0.01 (0.21) 0.15  0.00 
 0.27 
 0.72 
CPITX  0.09  0.02 (0.24)(12.74) 0.00 
 0.18 
 0.54 
FCFWX  0.35  0.04  0.02  0.13  0.30 
 0.68 
 1.97 
GDV  0.56  0.05  0.05  0.12  0.59 
 1.07 
 2.94 
PYEQX  0.70  0.25  0.30  3.49  0.20 
 1.48 
 10.38 
JIBBX  0.24  0.03 (0.04) 0.78  0.22 
 0.51 
 1.47