First Trust Correlations
| FPEFX Fund | USD 20.68 0.01 0.05% |
The current 90-days correlation between First Trust Preferred and Dunham Large Cap is 0.25 (i.e., Modest 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
Poor diversification
The correlation between First Trust Preferred and DJI is 0.75 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding First Trust Preferred and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
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Moving together with First Mutual Fund
| 0.83 | CPXIX | Cohen Steers Prfrd | PairCorr |
| 0.82 | CPXAX | Cohen Steers Preferd | PairCorr |
| 0.84 | CPXCX | Cohen Steers Prefrd | PairCorr |
| 0.86 | CPRRX | Cohen Steers Preferred | PairCorr |
| 0.84 | CPXZX | Cohen Steers Preferred | PairCorr |
| 0.84 | CPXFX | Cohen Steers Preferred | PairCorr |
| 0.73 | NPSAX | Nuveen Preferred Sec | PairCorr |
| 0.74 | NPSCX | Nuveen Preferred Sec | PairCorr |
| 0.83 | PPSJX | Preferred Securities | PairCorr |
| 0.77 | PDI | Pimco Dynamic Income | PairCorr |
| 0.69 | TAHYX | Pioneer High Yield | PairCorr |
| 0.71 | RYBAX | Basic Materials | PairCorr |
| 0.7 | DSIBX | Dreyfus Short Interm | PairCorr |
| 0.7 | SEBLX | Sentinel Balanced | PairCorr |
| 0.73 | RFDTX | American Funds 2025 | PairCorr |
| 0.77 | FAFWX | American Funds Retirement | PairCorr |
| 0.81 | AVK | Advent Claymore Conv | PairCorr |
| 0.8 | PGLRX | Putnam Global Equity | PairCorr |
| 0.77 | HWHAX | Hotchkis Wiley High | PairCorr |
| 0.67 | CFNLX | National Tax | PairCorr |
| 0.73 | CDDYX | Columbia Dividend Income | PairCorr |
| 0.64 | DEVCX | Delaware Small Cap | PairCorr |
| 0.79 | BASMX | Blackrock Total Stock | PairCorr |
| 0.74 | DHSIX | Diamond Hill Small | PairCorr |
| 0.69 | SRMCX | Deutsche Short Term | PairCorr |
| 0.75 | ABCIX | American Beacon | PairCorr |
Moving against First Mutual Fund
| 0.8 | UIPIX | Ultrashort Mid Cap | PairCorr |
| 0.62 | CESGX | Coho Relative Value | PairCorr |
| 0.59 | USPSX | Profunds Ultrashort | PairCorr |
| 0.58 | USPIX | Profunds Ultrashort | PairCorr |
| 0.49 | TCSUX | Cleartrack 2020 Class | PairCorr |
| 0.46 | TCTGX | Transamerica Cleartrack | PairCorr |
| 0.46 | TDKTX | Cleartrack 2015 Class | PairCorr |
| 0.46 | TCTJX | Transamerica Cleartrack | PairCorr |
Related Correlations Analysis
| 0.93 | 0.95 | 0.92 | 0.96 | 0.98 | MXHAX | ||
| 0.93 | 0.97 | 0.92 | 0.94 | 0.9 | TACLX | ||
| 0.95 | 0.97 | 0.95 | 0.97 | 0.95 | PAFDX | ||
| 0.92 | 0.92 | 0.95 | 0.98 | 0.92 | CBLSX | ||
| 0.96 | 0.94 | 0.97 | 0.98 | 0.97 | WILCX | ||
| 0.98 | 0.9 | 0.95 | 0.92 | 0.97 | DNLVX | ||
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.| Mean Deviation | Jensen Alpha | Sortino Ratio | Treynor Ratio | Semi Deviation | Expected Shortfall | Potential Upside | Value @Risk | Maximum Drawdown | ||
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| MXHAX | 0.59 | 0.16 | 0.17 | 1.05 | 0.39 | 1.41 | 5.54 | |||
| TACLX | 0.57 | 0.10 | 0.05 | 0.93 | 0.59 | 1.21 | 5.12 | |||
| PAFDX | 0.57 | 0.05 | 0.07 | 0.13 | 0.45 | 1.49 | 3.17 | |||
| CBLSX | 0.77 | 0.23 | 0.27 | 0.44 | 0.30 | 1.54 | 14.41 | |||
| WILCX | 0.49 | 0.14 | 0.20 | 0.31 | 0.17 | 0.99 | 4.64 | |||
| DNLVX | 0.59 | 0.13 | 0.16 | 0.26 | 0.42 | 1.31 | 5.73 |