First Trust Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between First Trust Managed and T Rowe Price is 0.02 (i.e., Significant diversification). The correlation of First Trust 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.

First Trust Correlation With Market

Average diversification

The correlation between First Trust Managed and DJI is 0.11 (i.e., Average diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding First Trust Managed 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 First Trust Managed. 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 gross domestic product.

Moving together with First Mutual Fund

  0.66FPEIX First Trust PreferredPairCorr
  0.67FPEFX First Trust PreferredPairCorr
  0.7FPECX First Trust PreferredPairCorr
  0.68FPEAX First Trust PreferredPairCorr
  0.69FPERX First Trust PreferredPairCorr
  0.93AFTEX Tax Exempt BondPairCorr
  0.92AFTFX Tax Exempt BondPairCorr
  0.96TEBCX Tax Exempt BondPairCorr
  0.9TEAFX Tax Exempt BondPairCorr
  0.9TFEBX Tax Exempt BondPairCorr
  0.82FLTMX Fidelity IntermediatePairCorr
  0.94GSMUX Goldman Sachs DynamicPairCorr
  0.9GSMIX Goldman Sachs DynamicPairCorr
  0.8MNDWX Manning Napier DiverPairCorr
  0.61GCMFX Gurtin CaliforniaPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between First Mutual Fund performing well and First Trust 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 First Trust'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.