Pimco Senior Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Pimco Senior Floating and Great West Government Mortgage is 0.27 (i.e., Modest diversification). The correlation of Pimco Senior 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 Senior Correlation With Market

Modest diversification

The correlation between Pimco Senior Floating and DJI is 0.29 (i.e., Modest diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Pimco Senior Floating 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 Senior Floating. Also, note that the market value of any mutual fund could be closely tied with the direction of predictive economic indicators such as various price indices.

Moving together with Pimco Mutual Fund

  0.92OOSYX Oppenheimer SeniorPairCorr
  0.92OOSIX Oppenheimer SeniorPairCorr
  0.97LFRIX Floating RatePairCorr
  0.96LARCX Floating RatePairCorr
  0.96LFRRX Lord Abbett InvPairCorr
  0.97LFRFX Floating RatePairCorr
  0.96LRRRX Floating RatePairCorr
  0.97LRRTX Floating RatePairCorr
  0.96LRRVX Floating RatePairCorr
  0.96LRRKX Floating RatePairCorr
  0.76CSCO Cisco SystemsPairCorr

Moving against Pimco Mutual Fund

  0.35HLDCX Hartford EmergingPairCorr
  0.34HLDRX Hartford EmergingPairCorr
  0.65HPQ HP IncPairCorr
  0.63INTC IntelPairCorr
  0.52XOM Exxon Mobil Corp Earnings Call TodayPairCorr
  0.45DD Dupont De Nemours Earnings Call This WeekPairCorr
  0.35TRV The Travelers CompaniesPairCorr
  0.32HLDTX Hartford EmergingPairCorr

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Correlation Matchups

Over a given time period, the two securities move together when the Correlation Coefficient is positive. Conversely, the two assets move in opposite directions when the Correlation Coefficient is negative. Determining your positions' relationship to each other is valuable for analyzing and projecting your portfolio's future expected return and risk.
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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

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