Lincoln Inflation Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Lincoln Inflation Plus and Vanguard Total Bond is -0.12 (i.e., Good diversification). The correlation of Lincoln Inflation 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.

Lincoln Inflation Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between Lincoln Inflation Plus and DJI is 0.78 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Lincoln Inflation Plus 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 Lincoln Inflation Plus. 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 nation.

Moving together with Lincoln Mutual Fund

  0.66VTSAX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.63VFIAX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.66VTSMX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.66VSTSX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.66VITSX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.66VSMPX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.96VTIAX Vanguard Total InterPairCorr
  0.63VFINX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.64VFFSX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.67VBTLX Vanguard Total BondPairCorr
  0.92NHS Neuberger Berman HighPairCorr
  0.89SWYHX Schwab Target 2045PairCorr
  0.79USCGX Capital GrowthPairCorr
  0.69SHXCX American Beacon ShapiroPairCorr
  0.84TVOCX Touchstone Small CapPairCorr
  0.87NWEIX Nationwide DestinationPairCorr
  0.91VIVAX Vanguard Value IndexPairCorr
  0.92PRNEX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.94RTISX Select InternationalPairCorr
  0.88PISDX Columbia Pyrford IntPairCorr
  0.91PHDTX Pace High YieldPairCorr
  0.76USPVX Union Street PartnersPairCorr
  0.9RLIAX Invesco Income AllocationPairCorr
  0.93USERX Gold And PreciousPairCorr
  0.81NSRIX Northern Global SustPairCorr
  0.87VSMVX Vanguard Sp SmallPairCorr
  0.93FIJDX Gold Portfolio Fidelity Steady GrowthPairCorr
  0.87REREX Europacific GrowthPairCorr
  0.86TFEBX Tax Exempt BondPairCorr
  0.83ACCSX Access Capital MunityPairCorr
  0.87PRFDX T Rowe PricePairCorr
  0.86FPURX Fidelity PuritanPairCorr
  0.78DAGVX Dreyfus Strategic ValuePairCorr
  0.81DNVYX Davis New YorkPairCorr
  0.86NEZNX Loomis Sayles StrategicPairCorr
  0.93FRASX Fidelity Income ReplPairCorr
  0.96FTISX Fidelity InternationalPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Lincoln Mutual Fund performing well and Lincoln Inflation 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 Lincoln Inflation'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
VTSAX  0.58 (0.04)(0.07) 0.01  0.81 
 1.11 
 3.73 
VFIAX  0.54 (0.05)(0.07) 0.00  0.78 
 0.99 
 3.61 
VTSMX  0.57 (0.04)(0.07) 0.01  0.79 
 1.11 
 3.74 
VSTSX  0.58 (0.04)(0.07) 0.01  0.81 
 1.11 
 3.74 
VITSX  0.57 (0.04)(0.07) 0.01  0.79 
 1.11 
 3.73 
VSMPX  0.57 (0.04)(0.07) 0.01  0.79 
 1.11 
 3.73 
VTIAX  0.60  0.12  0.13  0.25  0.56 
 1.47 
 4.10 
VFINX  0.55 (0.05)(0.07) 0.00  0.80 
 1.06 
 3.61 
VFFSX  0.55 (0.05)(0.07) 0.00  0.81 
 0.99 
 3.61 
VBTLX  0.15  0.01 (0.21) 0.37  0.04 
 0.31 
 0.62