Pimco High Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Pimco High Yield and Municipal Bond Fund is 0.96 (i.e., Almost no diversification). The correlation of Pimco High 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 High Correlation With Market

Good diversification

The correlation between Pimco High Yield and DJI is -0.1 (i.e., Good diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Pimco High Yield and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
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Moving together with Pimco Mutual Fund

  0.92NHMAX Nuveen High YieldPairCorr
  0.97NHCCX Nuveen High YieldPairCorr
  0.96NHMRX Nuveen High YieldPairCorr
  0.96NHMFX Nuveen High YieldPairCorr
  0.98ABHFX American High IncomePairCorr
  0.99AHICX American High IncomePairCorr
  0.98AMHIX American High IncomePairCorr
  0.99GHYCX Goldman Sachs HighPairCorr
  0.98GHYAX Goldman Sachs HighPairCorr
  0.99ACTDX Invesco High YieldPairCorr
  0.78TRV The Travelers CompaniesPairCorr
  0.64DD Dupont De Nemours Earnings Call This WeekPairCorr
  0.76HD Home DepotPairCorr

Moving against Pimco Mutual Fund

  0.47VZ Verizon CommunicationsPairCorr
  0.47BA BoeingPairCorr
  0.39PFE Pfizer 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 High 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 High'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.