Highland Floating Correlations

HFRO Fund  USD 5.69  0.07  1.25%   
The current 90-days correlation between Highland Floating Rate and Neuberger Berman Next is 0.2 (i.e., Modest diversification). A perfect positive correlation (i.e., a correlation coefficient of +1) implies that as Highland Floating moves, either up or down, the other security will move in the same direction. Alternatively, perfect negative correlation means that if Highland Floating Rate moves in either direction, the perfectly negatively correlated security will move in the opposite direction.

Highland Floating Correlation With Market

Average diversification

The correlation between Highland Floating Rate and DJI is 0.13 (i.e., Average diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Highland Floating Rate and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Risk vs Return Analysis to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Highland Floating Rate. Also, note that the market value of any fund could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in metropolitan statistical area.

Moving together with Highland Fund

  0.73DNP Dnp Select IncomePairCorr
  0.61PCF Putnam High IncomePairCorr
  0.61FSBCX Federated Global AllPairCorr
  0.63ARTNX Artisan Select EquityPairCorr
  0.68MSTGX Morningstar Global IncomePairCorr
  0.64HCYAX Direxion Hilton TacticalPairCorr

Moving against Highland Fund

  0.43DXKSX Direxion Monthly 7PairCorr
  0.34TTP Tortoise Pipeline AndPairCorr

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Correlation Matchups

Over a given time period, the two securities move together when the Correlation Coefficient is positive. Conversely, the two assets move in opposite directions when the Correlation Coefficient is negative. Determining your positions' relationship to each other is valuable for analyzing and projecting your portfolio's future expected return and risk.
High positive correlations   
BIGZNBXG
BIGZSTEW
AIODSL
DBLDSL
BMEZBIGZ
STEWNBXG
  
High negative correlations   
NRGXNMCO
AIONMCO
DBLNMCO

Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Highland Fund performing well and Highland Floating 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 Highland Floating'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
NBXG  0.93  0.09  0.02  0.31  1.30 
 1.96 
 7.27 
STEW  0.62  0.08 (0.01) 21.58  0.65 
 1.55 
 6.35 
NMCO  0.52 (0.01)(0.11) 0.03  0.68 
 1.20 
 3.01 
DSL  0.48  0.04 (0.07) 0.33  0.45 
 1.13 
 3.43 
NRGX  1.01  0.19  0.06 (1.53) 1.14 
 2.23 
 7.31 
BIGZ  1.05  0.14  0.06  0.43  1.22 
 2.31 
 7.16 
BMEZ  0.88  0.12  0.07  0.37  0.74 
 2.35 
 6.42 
AIO  1.15  0.17  0.08  0.38  1.62 
 2.47 
 10.00 
PDO  0.53  0.03 (0.07) 0.26  0.65 
 1.33 
 2.94 
DBL  0.30  0.04 (0.08) 0.28  0.30 
 0.74 
 1.70