Fixed Income Correlations

FXIMX Fund  USD 8.98  0.01  0.11%   
The current 90-days correlation between Fixed Income Shares and Ab Impact Municipal is 0.64 (i.e., Poor diversification). The correlation of Fixed 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.

Fixed Income Correlation With Market

Average diversification

The correlation between Fixed Income Shares 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 Fixed Income Shares 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 Fixed Income Shares. 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 industry.

Moving together with Fixed Mutual Fund

  0.7PFBPX Pimco Foreign BondPairCorr
  0.82PFCJX Pimco Preferred AndPairCorr
  0.71PFINX Pimco Capital SecPairCorr
  0.7PFONX Pimco International BondPairCorr
  0.7PFORX Pimco Foreign BondPairCorr
  0.72PFNNX Pimco Preferred AndPairCorr
  0.69PFOAX Pimco Foreign BondPairCorr
  0.64PFOCX Pimco Foreign BondPairCorr
  0.7PFRAX Pimco Foreign BondPairCorr
  0.74PFRMX Pimco Inflation ResponsePairCorr
  0.8PFPNX Pimco Capital SecPairCorr
  0.67PFRRX Pimco Foreign BondPairCorr
  0.63PGBIX Global Bond FundPairCorr
  0.75PGCAX Investment Grade PoratePairCorr

Related Correlations Analysis


Risk-Adjusted Indicators

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