Short Duration Correlations

APOGX Fund  USD 10.56  0.01  0.09%   
The current 90-days correlation between Short Duration Inflation and Select Fund Investor is 0.19 (i.e., Average diversification). The correlation of Short Duration 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.

Short Duration Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between Short Duration Inflation and DJI is 0.77 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Short Duration Inflation and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Trending Equities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Short Duration Inflation. Also, note that the market value of any mutual fund could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in census.

Moving together with Short Mutual Fund

  0.91AMDVX Mid Cap ValuePairCorr
  0.62AMEIX Equity GrowthPairCorr
  0.77AMGIX Income GrowthPairCorr
  0.8CDBCX Diversified BondPairCorr
  0.89AMKIX Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.89TWACX Short Term GovernmentPairCorr
  0.81TWADX Value Fund APairCorr
  0.89TWARX Short Term GovernmentPairCorr
  0.89TWAVX Short Term GovernmentPairCorr
  0.77AMVYX Mid Cap ValuePairCorr
  0.77AMVRX Mid Cap ValuePairCorr
  0.77AMVGX Mid Cap ValuePairCorr
  0.82TWEAX Equity IncomePairCorr
  0.82TWEIX Equity IncomePairCorr
  0.75TWGAX International GrowthPairCorr
  0.64TWGGX Global GrowthPairCorr
  0.76TWIEX International GrowthPairCorr
  0.89TWMIX Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.94TWTCX Intermediate Term TaxPairCorr
  0.94TWTIX Intermediate Term TaxPairCorr
  0.77TWSCX Strategic AllocationPairCorr
  0.78TWSAX Strategic AllocationPairCorr
  0.77TWSMX Strategic AllocationPairCorr
  0.88TWUSX Short Term GovernmentPairCorr
  0.81TWVLX Value Fund InvestorPairCorr
  0.91TWUOX Short Term GovernmentPairCorr
  0.93TWWOX Intermediate Term TaxPairCorr
  0.85NPHIX High Income FundPairCorr

Moving against Short Mutual Fund

  0.46TWCUX Ultra Fund InvestorPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Short Mutual Fund performing well and Short Duration 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 Short Duration'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
AMDVX  0.60  0.11  0.13  0.21  0.46 
 1.54 
 3.69 
AMEIX  0.80  0.15  0.14  0.31  0.70 
 1.33 
 13.91 
AMGIX  0.68  0.21  0.27  0.35  0.23 
 1.60 
 8.67 
CDBCX  0.14  0.01 (0.24) 0.39  0.00 
 0.32 
 0.65 
AMKIX  0.72  0.15  0.15  0.31  0.58 
 1.49 
 4.05 
TWACX  0.05  0.00 (0.48) 1.40  0.00 
 0.11 
 0.33 
TWADX  0.65  0.27  0.39  0.55  0.00 
 1.40 
 9.13 
TWCCX  1.15  0.20  0.14  0.57  0.92 
 1.45 
 26.20 
TWCAX  0.93  0.06  0.03  0.16  1.04 
 1.51 
 15.17 
TWCIX  0.91  0.05  0.02  0.14  1.04 
 1.52 
 14.35