Franklin Income Correlations

FNCFX Fund  USD 2.41  0.01  0.42%   
The current 90-days correlation between Franklin Income and Legg Mason Partners is -0.01 (i.e., Good diversification). The correlation of Franklin 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.

Franklin Income Correlation With Market

Significant diversification

The correlation between Franklin Income Fund and DJI is 0.07 (i.e., Significant diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Franklin Income Fund and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Investing Opportunities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Franklin Income Fund. 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 Franklin Mutual Fund

  0.67TEDMX Templeton DevelopingPairCorr
  0.72TEMQX Mutual QuestPairCorr
  0.65FQCHX Franklin Templeton SmacsPairCorr
  0.62TEPLX Templeton GrowthPairCorr
  0.74FQTEX Franklin Strategic SeriesPairCorr
  0.65FQTHX Franklin Templeton SmacsPairCorr
  0.77FQTIX Franklin Strategic SeriesPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Franklin Mutual Fund performing well and Franklin 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 Franklin 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.