Floating Rate Correlations

LRRTX Fund  USD 7.98  0.02  0.25%   
The current 90-days correlation between Floating Rate and Lord Abbett Vertible is 0.07 (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

Very poor diversification

The correlation between Floating Rate Fund and DJI is 0.82 (i.e., Very 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 signals in population.

Moving together with Floating Mutual Fund

  0.79LFSFX Lord Abbett FocusedPairCorr
  0.94LFRAX Floating RatePairCorr
  0.99LFRFX Floating RatePairCorr
  0.99LFRIX Floating RatePairCorr
  0.98LFRRX Lord Abbett InvPairCorr
  0.94LFROX Lord Abbett FloatingPairCorr
  0.78LFVAX Lord Abbett FocusedPairCorr
  0.79LFVCX Lord Abbett FocusedPairCorr
  0.62HYMQX Lord Abbett ShortPairCorr
  0.81LGCAX Lord Abbett GlobalPairCorr
  0.83LGCFX Lord Abbett GlobalPairCorr
  0.83LGCCX Lord Abbett GlobalPairCorr
  0.83LGCRX Lord Abbett GlobalPairCorr
  0.81LGCOX Lord Abbett GlobalPairCorr
  0.83LGCVX Lord Abbett GlobalPairCorr
  0.83LGCSX Lord Abbett GlobalPairCorr
  0.83LGCYX Lord Abbett GlobalPairCorr
  0.83LGCWX Lord Abbett GlobalPairCorr
  0.81LGOFX Lord Abbett GrowthPairCorr
  0.81LGOQX Lord Abbett GrowthPairCorr
  0.81LGORX Lord Abbett GrowthPairCorr
  0.61LGOPX Lord Abbett GrowthPairCorr

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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.