First Trust Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between First Trust Preferred and First Trustconfluence Small is 0.11 (i.e., Average 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

Almost no diversification

The correlation between First Trust Preferred and DJI is 0.91 (i.e., Almost no 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.
  
Check out Investing Opportunities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in First Trust Preferred. 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

  0.79CWAIX First Trust ManagedPairCorr
  0.93FTMAX Franklin TempletonPairCorr
  0.92FTMCX First Trust MultiPairCorr
  0.85FDHIX First Trust ShortPairCorr
  0.82FDHCX First Trust ShortPairCorr
  0.84FDHAX First Trust ShortPairCorr
  0.79VARBX Vivaldi Merger ArbitragePairCorr
  0.78VARCX First Trust MergerPairCorr
  0.79VARAX Vivaldi Merger ArbitragePairCorr
  0.78FOVIX First Trust/confluencePairCorr
  0.86FOVCX First Trust/confluencePairCorr
  0.79FOVAX First Trust/confluencePairCorr
  1.0FPEFX First Trust PreferredPairCorr
  0.97FPECX First Trust PreferredPairCorr
  0.97FPEAX First Trust PreferredPairCorr
  1.0FPERX First Trust PreferredPairCorr
  0.97CPXIX Cohen Steers PrfrdPairCorr
  0.97CPXAX Cohen Steers PreferdPairCorr
  0.97CPXCX Cohen Steers PrefrdPairCorr
  0.98CPRRX Cohen Steers PreferredPairCorr
  0.97CPXZX Cohen Steers PreferredPairCorr
  0.98CPXFX Cohen Steers PreferredPairCorr
  0.97NPSAX Nuveen Preferred SecPairCorr
  0.97NPSCX Nuveen Preferred SecPairCorr
  0.96PPSJX Preferred SecuritiesPairCorr
  0.91NHS Neuberger Berman HighPairCorr
  0.84JVARX Jpmorgan Value AdvantagePairCorr
  0.95CMBOX American Funds MultiPairCorr
  0.7AASOX Alger Small CapPairCorr
  0.77LSGBX Loomis Sayles GlobalPairCorr
  0.83ERASX Eaton Vance AtlantaPairCorr
  0.88JASBX Janus Short TermPairCorr
  0.94FISEX Franklin Equity IncomePairCorr
  0.85GCTCX Goldman Sachs TaxPairCorr
  0.73ACAAX Alger Capital ApprecPairCorr
  0.72WFSTX Specialized TechnologyPairCorr
  0.94JOHAX Johcm InternationalPairCorr
  0.93BGEPX Baillie Gifford EmergingPairCorr
  0.95FSBLX Federated Global AllPairCorr

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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.
Mean DeviationJensen AlphaSortino RatioTreynor RatioSemi DeviationExpected ShortfallPotential UpsideValue @RiskMaximum Drawdown
CWAIX  0.06  0.01 (0.63) 0.63  0.00 
 0.19 
 0.59 
FTMAX  0.10  0.00 (0.48) 0.19  0.02 
 0.25 
 0.71 
FTMCX  0.10  0.00 (0.50) 0.13  0.00 
 0.25 
 0.66 
FDHIX  0.09  0.00 (0.63) 0.89  0.00 
 0.17 
 0.78 
FDHCX  0.08  0.00 (0.74)(0.28) 0.00 
 0.17 
 0.67 
FDHAX  0.09  0.00 (0.66) 0.30  0.00 
 0.17 
 0.78 
VARBX  0.10  0.04 (0.37) 2.62  0.00 
 0.10 
 2.72 
VARCX  0.10  0.03 (0.43) 1.02  0.00 
 0.10 
 2.75 
VARAX  0.10  0.04 (0.39)(1.98) 0.00 
 0.10 
 2.68 
FOVIX  0.86  0.03  0.04  0.12  0.70 
 2.51 
 5.20