Pimco Income Correlations

PIPNX Fund  USD 10.99  0.03  0.27%   
The current 90-days correlation between Pimco Income and The Hartford Servative is 0.25 (i.e., Modest diversification). The correlation of Pimco 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.

Pimco Income Correlation With Market

Very poor diversification

The correlation between Pimco Income Fund and DJI is 0.82 (i.e., Very poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Pimco Income Fund and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
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Moving together with Pimco Mutual Fund

  1.0PONAX Pimco IncomePairCorr
  1.0PONCX Pimco IncomePairCorr
  1.0PONRX Pimco IncomePairCorr
  1.0PONPX Pimco Incme FundPairCorr
  1.0PIINX Pimco IncomePairCorr
  1.0PIMIX Pimco IncomePairCorr
  0.98LBNDX Lord Abbett BondPairCorr
  0.96FSTAX Fidelity Advisor StrPairCorr
  0.96FSRIX Fidelity Advisor StrPairCorr
  0.76EKWDX Wells Fargo AdvantagePairCorr
  0.69PMPIX Precious Metals UltrPairCorr
  0.69PMPSX Precious Metals UltrPairCorr
  0.97SSTHX Wells Fargo ShortPairCorr
  0.84ASPCX Alger SpectraPairCorr
  0.95PTSRX Short Term FundPairCorr
  0.84RYTLX Telecommunications Steady GrowthPairCorr
  0.85LGWAX Ladenburg GrowthPairCorr
  0.65MRK Merck Company Earnings Call TomorrowPairCorr
  0.71CAT CaterpillarPairCorr
  0.8AA Alcoa CorpPairCorr
  0.7INTC Intel Aggressive PushPairCorr
  0.65WMT Walmart Common Stock Aggressive PushPairCorr

Moving against Pimco Mutual Fund

  0.5HPQ HP Inc Aggressive PushPairCorr
  0.37MSFT MicrosoftPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

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