Fixed Income Correlations

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The current 90-days correlation between Fixed Income and Franklin Federal Limited Term is 0.25 (i.e., Modest diversification). The correlation of Fixed 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.

Fixed Income Correlation With Market

Average diversification

The correlation between The Fixed Income and DJI is 0.12 (i.e., Average diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding The Fixed Income 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 The Fixed Income. 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 Fixed Mutual Fund

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  0.94VSTSX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.94VSMPX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.93VFINX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.94VFFSX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.95VGTSX Vanguard Total InterPairCorr
  0.95VTIAX Vanguard Total InterPairCorr
  0.69NHS Neuberger Berman HighPairCorr
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  0.84AA Alcoa CorpPairCorr
  0.79DD Dupont De Nemours Earnings Call This WeekPairCorr
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  0.84IBM International Business Earnings Call TodayPairCorr
  0.89DIS Walt DisneyPairCorr
  0.65CVX Chevron CorpPairCorr
  0.88CAT CaterpillarPairCorr
  0.88BA Boeing Earnings Call This WeekPairCorr
  0.92MSFT Microsoft Earnings Call This WeekPairCorr

Moving against Fixed Mutual Fund

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

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