Nuveen Municipal Correlations

NZF Fund  USD 12.26  0.03  0.25%   
The current 90-days correlation between Nuveen Municipal Credit and Nuveen Amt Free Municipal is 0.84 (i.e., Very poor diversification). The correlation of Nuveen Municipal 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.

Nuveen Municipal Correlation With Market

Weak diversification

The correlation between Nuveen Municipal Credit and DJI is 0.31 (i.e., Weak diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Nuveen Municipal Credit 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 Nuveen Municipal Credit. Also, note that the market value of any fund could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as signals in nation.

Moving together with Nuveen Fund

  0.71BRUFX Bruce Fund BrucePairCorr
  0.65VSMAX Vanguard Small CapPairCorr
  0.65FHIFX Fidelity Focused HighPairCorr
  0.67GSGPX Goldman Sachs AbsolutePairCorr
  0.68ETILX Eventide GileadPairCorr
  0.68DCCIX Delaware Small CapPairCorr

Moving against Nuveen Fund

  0.44RYMEX Commodities StrategyPairCorr
  0.44RYMJX Commodities StrategyPairCorr
  0.44RYMBX Commodities StrategyPairCorr
  0.38QREARX Teachers Insurance AndPairCorr
  0.68HIMUX Pioneer Map HighPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Nuveen Fund performing well and Nuveen Municipal 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 Nuveen Municipal'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.