Federated Total Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Federated Total Return and Adams Diversified Equity is 0.05 (i.e., Significant diversification). The correlation of Federated Total 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.

Federated Total Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between Federated Total Return and DJI is 0.65 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Federated Total Return 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 Federated Total Return. 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 board of governors.

Moving together with Federated Mutual Fund

  0.62FRIEX Federated Hermes EmergingPairCorr
  0.69FSBCX Federated Global AllPairCorr
  0.69FSBKX Federated Global AllPairCorr
  0.77FSHSX Federated Short IntePairCorr
  0.79FSILX Federated Short TermPairCorr
  0.8FSTIX Federated Short TermPairCorr
  0.8FSTYX Federated Short TermPairCorr
  0.67FSTBX Federated Global AllPairCorr
  0.62PIEFX Pnc Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.74SVALX Federated Strategic ValuePairCorr
  0.75FTIAX Federated Short TermPairCorr
  0.98FTGSX Federated Total ReturnPairCorr
  0.73SVAAX Federated Strategic ValuePairCorr
  0.74SVAIX Federated Strategic ValuePairCorr
  0.73SVACX Federated Strategic ValuePairCorr
  0.64RRFAX Federated Real ReturnPairCorr
  0.76RRFIX Federated Real ReturnPairCorr

Moving against Federated Mutual Fund

  0.53PIGDX Pnc International GrowthPairCorr
  0.56PIUCX Pnc International EquityPairCorr
  0.56PIUIX Pnc International EquityPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Federated Mutual Fund performing well and Federated Total 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 Federated Total'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.