High Income Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between High Income Fund and Pace High Yield is 0.41 (i.e., Very weak diversification). The correlation of High Income 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.

High Income Correlation With Market

Almost no diversification

The correlation between High Income Fund and DJI is 0.94 (i.e., Almost no diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding High Income 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 High Income 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 gross domestic product.

Moving together with High Mutual Fund

  0.89AMDVX Mid Cap ValuePairCorr
  0.7AMEIX Equity GrowthPairCorr
  0.9AMGIX Income GrowthPairCorr
  0.7CDBCX Diversified BondPairCorr
  0.89AMKIX Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.9TWACX Short Term GovernmentPairCorr
  0.92TWADX Value Fund APairCorr
  0.71TWCCX Ultra Fund CPairCorr
  0.91TWARX Short Term GovernmentPairCorr
  0.87TWAVX Short Term GovernmentPairCorr
  0.88AMVYX Mid Cap ValuePairCorr
  0.88AMVRX Mid Cap ValuePairCorr
  0.75TWBIX Balanced Fund InvestorPairCorr
  0.88AMVGX Mid Cap ValuePairCorr
  0.87TWEAX Equity IncomePairCorr
  0.87TWEIX Equity IncomePairCorr
  0.92TWGAX International GrowthPairCorr
  0.73TWGGX Global GrowthPairCorr
  0.92TWIEX International GrowthPairCorr
  0.89TWMIX Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.7TWRCX Growth Fund CPairCorr
  0.86TWTCX Intermediate Term TaxPairCorr
  0.88TWTIX Intermediate Term TaxPairCorr
  0.95TWSCX Strategic AllocationPairCorr
  0.95TWSAX Strategic AllocationPairCorr
  0.95TWSMX Strategic AllocationPairCorr
  0.9TWUSX Short Term GovernmentPairCorr
  0.92TWVLX Value Fund InvestorPairCorr
  0.9TWUOX Short Term GovernmentPairCorr
  0.86TWWOX Intermediate Term TaxPairCorr

Moving against High Mutual Fund

  0.38TWCGX Growth Fund InvestorPairCorr
  0.37TWGIX Growth Fund IPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between High Mutual Fund performing well and High Income 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 High Income'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.