Pimco Floating Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Pimco Floating Income and Morningstar Defensive Bond is 0.18 (i.e., Average diversification). The correlation of Pimco Floating 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.

Pimco Floating Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between Pimco Floating Income and DJI is 0.77 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Pimco Floating Income and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Your Equity Center to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Pimco Floating Income. 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 unemployment.

Moving together with Pimco Mutual Fund

  0.79VBIRX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  0.88VFSUX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  0.97VFSIX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  0.97VFSTX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  0.88VBITX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  0.88VBISX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  0.72VSCSX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  0.94LALDX Lord Abbett ShortPairCorr
  0.9LDLAX Lord Abbett ShortPairCorr
  0.92LDLRX Lord Abbett ShortPairCorr
  0.76NHS Neuberger Berman HighPairCorr
  0.7GSSQX Goldman Sachs EquityPairCorr
  0.85PBLCX Blue Chip FundPairCorr
  0.73GLRIX James Balanced GoldenPairCorr
  0.93GILCX Guggenheim Large CapPairCorr
  0.7BMBSX Baird Quality IntermPairCorr
  0.92CFIPX Qs Global EquityPairCorr
  0.86BA BoeingPairCorr

Moving against Pimco Mutual Fund

  0.44HPQ HP IncPairCorr
  0.55T ATT Inc Earnings Call This WeekPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Pimco Mutual Fund performing well and Pimco Floating 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 Pimco Floating'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.