First Investors Correlations

FTOTX Fund  USD 12.13  0.04  0.33%   
The current 90-days correlation between First Investors Tax and Aam Select Income is 0.07 (i.e., Significant diversification). The correlation of First Investors 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.

First Investors Correlation With Market

Good diversification

The correlation between First Investors Tax and DJI is -0.03 (i.e., Good diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding First Investors Tax and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Investing Opportunities to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in First Investors Tax. 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 main economic indicators.

Moving together with First Mutual Fund

  0.85OASGX Optimum Small MidPairCorr
  0.9OCFIX Optimum Fixed IncomePairCorr
  0.93WASAX Ivy Asset StrategyPairCorr
  0.84WSGAX Ivy Small CapPairCorr
  0.81OCIEX Optimum InternationalPairCorr
  0.76OCLVX Optimum Large CapPairCorr
  0.91OCLGX Optimum Large CapPairCorr
  0.84OCSGX Optimum Small MidPairCorr
  0.93WSTAX Ivy Science AndPairCorr
  0.83DMO Western Asset MortgagePairCorr
  0.98CXHYX Delaware National HighPairCorr
  0.92WCEAX Ivy E EquityPairCorr
  1.0FTNYX Delaware Tax FreePairCorr
  1.0FTORX First Investors TaxPairCorr
  0.81DLHIX Delaware HealthcarePairCorr
  0.81DLHCX Delaware HealthcarePairCorr
  0.81DLHAX Delaware HealthcarePairCorr
  0.81DLRHX Delaware HealthcarePairCorr
  0.88DLTZX Delaware Limited TermPairCorr
  0.77DLTRX Delaware Limited TermPairCorr
  0.89IPOAX Ivy Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.99DMHIX Delaware Minnesota HighPairCorr
  0.99DMOCX Delaware Tax FreePairCorr
  1.0DMNIX Delaware Tax FreePairCorr
  0.99DMTFX Delaware Tax FreePairCorr
  0.99DMUSX Delaware Tax FreePairCorr
  0.76IRSAX Ivy Advantus RealPairCorr
  0.9OIFIX Optimum Fixed IncomePairCorr
  0.83OIIEX Optimum InternationalPairCorr
  0.92OILGX Optimum Large CapPairCorr
  0.78OILVX Optimum Large CapPairCorr
  1.0VCTFX Delaware Tax FreePairCorr
  0.92DPCFX Delaware DiversifiedPairCorr
  0.92DPDFX Delaware DiversifiedPairCorr
  0.89DPFFX Delaware DiversifiedPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between First Mutual Fund performing well and First Investors 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 First Investors' 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.