Highland Long/short Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Highland Long/short and Chestnut Street Exchange is 0.61 (i.e., Poor diversification). The correlation of Highland Long/short 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.

Highland Long/short Correlation With Market

Good diversification

The correlation between Highland Longshort Healthcare and DJI is -0.01 (i.e., Good diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Highland Longshort Healthcare 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 Longshort Healthcare. 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 main economic indicators.

Moving together with Highland Mutual Fund

  0.92HHCZX Highland Long/shortPairCorr
  0.98HHCAX Highland Long/shortPairCorr
  0.67HMEAX Highland Merger ArbitragePairCorr
  0.61HMECX Highland Merger ArbitragePairCorr
  0.69HMEZX Highland Merger ArbitragePairCorr
  0.9HSZYX Highland Small CapPairCorr
  0.9HSZAX Highland Small CapPairCorr
  0.89HSZCX Highland Small CapPairCorr
  0.75VARAX Vivaldi Merger ArbitragePairCorr
  0.77VARBX Vivaldi Merger ArbitragePairCorr
  0.89VARCX First Trust MergerPairCorr
  0.61ARBCX The ArbitragePairCorr
  0.72ARBNX The ArbitragePairCorr
  0.63PFN Pimco Income StrategyPairCorr
  0.7PCF Putnam High IncomePairCorr
  0.89CMEUX Six Circles ManagedPairCorr
  0.73SCRYX Small Cap CorePairCorr
  0.75VWELX Vanguard WellingtonPairCorr
  0.79RYVYX Nasdaq 100 2xPairCorr
  0.79VFINX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.86USPRX Sp 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.71PAHHX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.79FXAIX Fidelity 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.7FEMDX Franklin Emerging MarketPairCorr
  0.64SMERX Invesco Small CapPairCorr
  0.9INDEX Sp 500 EqualPairCorr

Moving against Highland Mutual Fund

  0.76XNXJX Nuveen New JerseyPairCorr
  0.74XNBHX Neuberger Berman IntPairCorr
  0.53XDSMX Dreyfus StrategicPairCorr
  0.48NXJ Nuveen New JerseyPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Highland Mutual Fund performing well and Highland Long/short 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 Highland Long/short'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.