Lord Abbett Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Lord Abbett Affiliated and James Balanced Golden is 0.08 (i.e., Significant diversification). The correlation of Lord Abbett 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.

Lord Abbett Correlation With Market

Very weak diversification

The correlation between Lord Abbett Affiliated and DJI is 0.42 (i.e., Very weak diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Lord Abbett Affiliated and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Correlation Analysis to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Lord Abbett Affiliated. 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 census.

Moving together with Lord Mutual Fund

  0.85LFSFX Lord Abbett FocusedPairCorr
  0.86LFVAX Lord Abbett FocusedPairCorr
  0.86LFVCX Lord Abbett FocusedPairCorr

Moving against Lord Mutual Fund

  0.61LFRIX Floating RatePairCorr
  0.6LFROX Lord Abbett FloatingPairCorr
  0.59LFRRX Lord Abbett InvPairCorr
  0.58LFRAX Floating RatePairCorr
  0.58LFRFX Floating RatePairCorr
  0.32LGLOX Lord Abbett GrowthPairCorr
  0.62LGRYX Lord Abbett InvestmentPairCorr
  0.61LGRFX Lord Abbett InvestmentPairCorr
  0.61LGRUX Lord Abbett InvestmentPairCorr
  0.6LGRAX Lord Abbett InvestmentPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Lord Mutual Fund performing well and Lord Abbett 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 Lord Abbett'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.