Nuveen Preferred Correlations

JPC Fund  USD 8.21  0.02  0.24%   
The current 90-days correlation between Nuveen Preferred Income and Nuveen Municipal Credit is 0.16 (i.e., Average diversification). The correlation of Nuveen Preferred 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.

Nuveen Preferred Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between Nuveen Preferred Income and DJI is 0.77 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Nuveen Preferred Income 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 Nuveen Preferred Income. 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 Nuveen Fund

  0.86CEE Central Europe RussiaPairCorr
  0.79BTO John Hancock FinancialPairCorr
  0.88KF Korea ClosedPairCorr
  0.89EMO Clearbridge Energy MlpPairCorr
  0.89TWN Taiwan ClosedPairCorr
  0.84CCD Calamos Dynamic ConvPairCorr
  0.63TDF Templeton Dragon ClosedPairCorr
  0.85SRV Cushing Mlp TotalPairCorr
  0.75ATWYX Ab Tax ManagedPairCorr
  0.63THGIX Thornburg InternationalPairCorr
  0.76ERAMX Eaton Vance MultiPairCorr
  0.9WESJX William Blair EmergingPairCorr
  0.86CWAAX First Trust ManagedPairCorr
  0.79USGFX Us Government SecuritiesPairCorr
  0.81OTIIX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.91VAESX Virtus Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.82HJSIX Hennessy Japan SmallPairCorr
  0.64HCKTX Hartford ChecksPairCorr
  0.88FADMX Fidelity Advisor StrPairCorr
  0.86SSAGX Virtus Seix GovernmentPairCorr
  0.77HASAX Horizon Active AssetPairCorr
  0.66LTFIX Principal Lifetime 2055PairCorr
  0.88RALSX Growth StrategyPairCorr
  0.67OAZGX Oakmark GlobalPairCorr
  0.79WIBMX Wilmington Broad MarketPairCorr
  0.88POAAX Pacific Funds PortfolioPairCorr
  0.89JRTGX Retirement Living ThroughPairCorr
  0.74SNOIX Snow Capital OpportunityPairCorr
  0.9FCFIX Frost CreditPairCorr
  0.9OEMCX Ophmr Eml DbtPairCorr
  0.9TBGVX Tweedy Browne GlobalPairCorr
  0.68FWCGX American Funds CapitalPairCorr
  0.72PGEOX George PutnamPairCorr
  0.89AAAAX Deutsche Real AssetsPairCorr

Related Correlations Analysis


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

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High negative correlations

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Nuveen Fund performing well and Nuveen Preferred 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 Nuveen Preferred'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
NZF  0.42  0.06 (0.02) 0.64  0.43 
 1.22 
 2.35 
PTY  0.23 (0.02)(0.24)(0.03) 0.29 
 0.47 
 2.51 
NVG  0.39  0.10  0.06  7.94  0.03 
 1.16 
 2.16 
ACP-PA  0.41  0.02 (0.09) 0.28  0.47 
 1.03 
 2.90 
ETY  0.57 (0.02)(0.08) 0.03  0.67 
 1.19 
 3.62 
NAD  0.37  0.06 (0.04)(4.83) 0.32 
 1.01 
 2.36 
EXG  0.54  0.11  0.12  0.31  0.34 
 1.22 
 3.01 
YAFFX  0.78  0.58  0.64  3.55  0.00 
 1.43 
 15.86 
YAFIX  0.79  0.58  0.64  3.57  0.00 
 1.44 
 16.03 
ADX  0.60  0.01 (0.05) 0.10  0.62 
 1.44 
 3.00