Lord Abbett Correlations

LCFYX Fund  USD 16.56  0.07  0.42%   
The current 90-days correlation between Lord Abbett Convertible and Ultra Short Fixed Income is 0.02 (i.e., Significant diversification). The correlation of Lord Abbett 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.

Lord Abbett Correlation With Market

Poor diversification

The correlation between Lord Abbett Convertible and DJI is 0.6 (i.e., Poor diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Lord Abbett Convertible and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out Correlation Analysis to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Lord Abbett Convertible. 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 Lord Mutual Fund

  0.99VAADX Virtus ConvertiblePairCorr
  0.92VTSAX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.92VFIAX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.92VTSMX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.92VSMPX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.92VSTSX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.92VITSX Vanguard Total StockPairCorr
  0.92VFINX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.92VFFSX Vanguard 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.89VGTSX Vanguard Total InterPairCorr
  0.89VTIAX Vanguard Total InterPairCorr
  0.92FPXIX Fidelity Advisor 529PairCorr
  0.82GPICX Guidepath ConservativePairCorr
  0.91INTC Intel Aggressive PushPairCorr
  0.82IBM International BusinessPairCorr
  0.8AA Alcoa CorpPairCorr
  0.91GE GE AerospacePairCorr
  0.83CAT CaterpillarPairCorr

Moving against Lord Mutual Fund

  0.73PG Procter GamblePairCorr
  0.83T ATT IncPairCorr
  0.83VZ Verizon CommunicationsPairCorr
  0.59MCD McDonaldsPairCorr
  0.46HD Home DepotPairCorr
  0.44DIS Walt DisneyPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Lord Mutual Fund performing well and Lord Abbett 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 Lord Abbett'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.