The Hartford Correlations

HIPAX Fund  USD 10.36  0.01  0.1%   
The current 90-days correlation between The Hartford Inflation and T Rowe Price is 0.14 (i.e., Average diversification). The correlation of The Hartford 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.

The Hartford Correlation With Market

Significant diversification

The correlation between The Hartford Inflation and DJI is 0.03 (i.e., Significant diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding The Hartford Inflation 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 Hartford Inflation. 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 The Mutual Fund

  0.96VIPSX Vanguard Inflation-protecPairCorr
  0.94VIPIX Vanguard InflationPairCorr
  0.96VAIPX Vanguard InflationPairCorr
  0.96FLIBX American Funds InflationPairCorr
  0.94FIBLX American Funds InflationPairCorr
  0.88BFICX American Funds InflationPairCorr
  0.93BFIAX American Funds InflationPairCorr
  0.94BFIFX American Funds InflationPairCorr
  0.96FSTDX Fidelity Series 5PairCorr
  0.95PARRX Real Return FundPairCorr
  0.64GE GE AerospacePairCorr
  0.76WMT WalmartPairCorr
  0.69AA Alcoa CorpPairCorr

Moving against The Mutual Fund

  0.66VZ Verizon CommunicationsPairCorr
  0.52T ATT IncPairCorr
  0.38CVX Chevron Corp Sell-off TrendPairCorr
  0.35BA BoeingPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between The Mutual Fund performing well and The Hartford 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 The Hartford'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.