Prudential Income Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Prudential Income Builder and Optimum Large Cap is 0.43 (i.e., Very weak diversification). The correlation of Prudential 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.

Prudential Income Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between Prudential Income Builder and DJI is 0.74 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Prudential Income Builder and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
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Moving together with Prudential Mutual Fund

  0.65HYSZX Prudential Short DurationPairCorr
  0.63HYSAX Prudential Short DurationPairCorr
  0.63EMDCX Prudential EmergingPairCorr
  0.77EMDZX Prudential EmergingPairCorr
  0.77PFSZX Prudential FinancialPairCorr
  0.72FRFZX Prudential Floating RatePairCorr
  0.63FRFAX Prudential Floating RatePairCorr
  0.8PGNAX Jennison Natural ResPairCorr
  0.65PHSZX Prudential HealthPairCorr
  0.72SUVZX Prudential Qma StrategicPairCorr
  0.81SDMZX Prudential Short DurationPairCorr
  0.69SDMCX Prudential Short DurationPairCorr
  0.81SDMAX Prudential Short DurationPairCorr
  0.72PJFZX Prudential JennisonPairCorr

Moving against Prudential Mutual Fund

  0.43PHECX Prudential Global TotalPairCorr
  0.45PHLCX Prudential HealthPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Prudential Mutual Fund performing well and Prudential 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 Prudential 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.