Floating Rate Correlations

LARCX Fund  USD 8.08  0.01  0.12%   
The current 90-days correlation between Floating Rate and Ab Small Cap is 0.03 (i.e., Significant diversification). The correlation of Floating Rate 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.

Floating Rate Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between Floating Rate Fund and DJI is 0.68 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Floating Rate Fund 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 Floating Rate Fund. Also, note that the market value of any mutual fund could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as various price indices.

Moving together with Floating Mutual Fund

  0.89OOSYX Oppenheimer SeniorPairCorr
  0.91OOSIX Oppenheimer SeniorPairCorr
  1.0LFRIX Floating RatePairCorr
  1.0LFRRX Lord Abbett InvPairCorr
  1.0LFRFX Floating RatePairCorr
  1.0LRRRX Floating RatePairCorr
  1.0LRRTX Floating RatePairCorr
  1.0LRRVX Floating RatePairCorr
  0.99LRRKX Floating RatePairCorr
  0.73VSTSX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.73VSMPX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.73VITSX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.68VFFSX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.68VFIAX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.73VTSAX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.86VTSNX Vanguard Total InterPairCorr
  0.86VTISX Vanguard Total InterPairCorr
  0.86VTPSX Vanguard Total InterPairCorr
  0.68VINIX Vanguard InstitutionalPairCorr
  0.63JNJ Johnson JohnsonPairCorr
  0.79BA Boeing Earnings Call TomorrowPairCorr
  0.79AA Alcoa Corp Downward RallyPairCorr
  0.63XOM Exxon Mobil Corp Earnings Call This WeekPairCorr
  0.67MRK Merck Company Earnings Call Next WeekPairCorr

Moving against Floating Mutual Fund

  0.54MSFT Microsoft Earnings Call This WeekPairCorr
  0.53HPQ HP IncPairCorr
  0.31PG Procter GamblePairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Floating Mutual Fund performing well and Floating Rate 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 Floating Rate'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.