Medium-duration Bond Correlations

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The correlation of Medium-duration Bond 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.

Medium-duration Bond Correlation With Market

Good diversification

The correlation between Medium Duration Bond Instituti and DJI is -0.04 (i.e., Good diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Medium Duration Bond Instituti and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Risk vs Return Analysis to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Medium Duration Bond Institutional. 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 manufacturing.

Moving together with Medium-duration Mutual Fund

  0.72GCOZX Growth AllocationPairCorr
  0.72GDMYX Defensive Market StrPairCorr
  0.81GVEYX Value Equity InstituPairCorr
  0.81GVEZX Value Equity InvestorPairCorr
  0.66GVIYX Guidestone Value EquityPairCorr
  0.67GVIZX Guidestone Value EquityPairCorr
  0.72GEMYX Emerging Markets EquityPairCorr
  0.7GEQYX Equity Index InstituPairCorr
  0.82GFIZX Conservative AllocationPairCorr
  0.7GGBZX Aggressive AllocationPairCorr
  0.78GGBEX Global Bond FundPairCorr
  0.94GGBFX Global Bond FundPairCorr
  0.7GGEYX Guidestone Fds GrowthPairCorr
  0.7GGEZX Growth Equity InvestorPairCorr
  0.77GGIZX Balanced AllocationPairCorr
  0.64GIEYX International EquityPairCorr
  0.64GIEZX International EquityPairCorr
  0.67GIIZX Guidestone Funds IntPairCorr
  0.93GLDYX Low Duration BondPairCorr
  0.94GLDZX Low Duration BondPairCorr
  1.0GMDZX Medium Duration BondPairCorr
  0.91GMBYX Guidestone FundsPairCorr
  0.9GMBZX Guidestone FundsPairCorr
  0.72GMFZX Mydestination 2045PairCorr
  0.69GMEYX Guidestone Funds ImpactPairCorr
  0.69GMEZX Guidestone Funds ImpactPairCorr
  0.8GMTYX Mydestination 2015PairCorr

Moving against Medium-duration Mutual Fund

  0.35GFSZX Strategic AlternativesPairCorr
  0.33GFSYX Strategic AlternativesPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Medium-duration Mutual Fund performing well and Medium-duration Bond 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 Medium-duration Bond'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.