Dreyfus Floating Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Dreyfus Floating Rate and Rbc Emerging Markets is 0.03 (i.e., Significant diversification). The correlation of Dreyfus Floating 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.

Dreyfus Floating Correlation With Market

Average diversification

The correlation between Dreyfus Floating Rate and DJI is 0.14 (i.e., Average diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Dreyfus Floating Rate and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
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Moving against Dreyfus Mutual Fund

  0.47DHGCX Dreyfusstandish GlobalPairCorr
  0.44DHGAX Dreyfusstandish GlobalPairCorr
  0.33DHMBX Dreyfus High YieldPairCorr
  0.33DHYCX Dreyfus High YieldPairCorr
  0.31DHYAX Dreyfus High YieldPairCorr
  0.39PNYCX Dreyfus New YorkPairCorr
  0.38DNYAX DnyaxPairCorr
  0.33DMUCX Dreyfus Amt FreePairCorr
  0.31DMBCX Dreyfus Municipal BondPairCorr
  0.31DMBZX Dreyfus Municipal BondPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Dreyfus Mutual Fund performing well and Dreyfus Floating 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 Dreyfus Floating'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.