Short Duration Correlations

WEFIX Fund  USD 12.09  0.01  0.08%   
The current 90-days correlation between Short Duration Income and Inverse Government Long is 0.03 (i.e., Significant diversification). The correlation of Short Duration 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.

Short Duration Correlation With Market

Significant diversification

The correlation between Short Duration Income and DJI is 0.01 (i.e., Significant diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Short Duration Income and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Your Current Watchlist to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Short Duration Income. 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 Short Mutual Fund

  0.9VFSUX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  0.95VFSIX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  0.95VFSTX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  0.95VBITX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  0.95VBISX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  0.88VSCSX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  0.94LALDX Lord Abbett ShortPairCorr
  0.94LDLAX Lord Abbett ShortPairCorr
  0.94LDLRX Lord Abbett ShortPairCorr
  0.67CSCO Cisco SystemsPairCorr
  0.72JNJ Johnson JohnsonPairCorr
  0.7WMT Walmart Common StockPairCorr
  0.67AA Alcoa CorpPairCorr
  0.62MCD McDonaldsPairCorr
  0.61AXP American ExpressPairCorr
  0.72BAC Bank of AmericaPairCorr
  0.7DD Dupont De NemoursPairCorr
  0.73MRK Merck CompanyPairCorr

Moving against Short Mutual Fund

  0.61HPQ HP IncPairCorr
  0.36CVX Chevron CorpPairCorr

Related Correlations Analysis


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.

High positive correlations

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High negative correlations

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Short Mutual Fund performing well and Short Duration 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 Short Duration'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.