Short Term Correlations

UISBX Fund  USD 9.13  0.01  0.11%   
The current 90-days correlation between Short Term Bond and Capital Growth Fund is 0.12 (i.e., Average diversification). The correlation of Short Term 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.

Short Term Correlation With Market

Significant diversification

The correlation between Short Term Bond Fund and DJI is 0.08 (i.e., Significant diversification) for selected investment horizon. Overlapping area represents the amount of risk that can be diversified away by holding Short Term Bond Fund and DJI in the same portfolio, assuming nothing else is changed.
  
Check out World Market Map to better understand how to build diversified portfolios, which includes a position in Short Term Bond Fund. 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 bureau of labor statistics.

Moving together with Short Mutual Fund

  0.91UICGX Capital GrowthPairCorr
  0.91UIEMX Emerging MarketsPairCorr
  0.93UIHIX High Income FundPairCorr
  0.9UIIFX International FundPairCorr
  0.91UIGIX Growth IncomePairCorr
  0.83UIGSX Government SecuritiesPairCorr
  0.9UIGRX Growth Fund GrowthPairCorr
  0.89UIINX Income Fund IncomePairCorr
  0.9UIISX Income StockPairCorr
  0.9UIITX Intermediate Term BondPairCorr
  0.87UISCX Small Cap StockPairCorr
  0.9UIVAX Value Fund ValuePairCorr
  0.91UIWGX World GrowthPairCorr
  0.9URIBX Intermediate Term BondPairCorr
  0.9URIFX Income Fund IncomePairCorr
  0.82URGSX Government SecuritiesPairCorr
  0.93URHIX High Income FundPairCorr
  0.9URNQX Nasdaq 100 IndexPairCorr
  1.0URSBX Short Term BondPairCorr
  0.98URUSX Ultra Short TermPairCorr
  0.91USPRX Sp 500 IndexPairCorr
  0.9UTMAX Target Managed AllocationPairCorr
  0.95UUSIX Ultra Short TermPairCorr
  0.89UGOFX Global Managed VolatilityPairCorr
  0.9UIAGX Aggressive GrowthPairCorr
  0.86VBIRX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  0.89VFSUX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  0.99VFSIX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  0.99VFSTX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  0.94VBITX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  0.95VBISX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  0.96LALDX Lord Abbett ShortPairCorr
  0.97VSCSX Vanguard Short TermPairCorr
  0.98LDLAX Lord Abbett ShortPairCorr
  0.97LDLRX Lord Abbett ShortPairCorr
  0.94PFN Pimco Income StrategyPairCorr
  0.91CIF Mfs Intermediate HighPairCorr

Moving against Short Mutual Fund

  0.54XNBHX Neuberger Berman IntPairCorr
  0.46XDSMX Dreyfus StrategicPairCorr

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Risk-Adjusted Indicators

There is a big difference between Short Mutual Fund performing well and Short Term 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 Short Term'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.
Mean DeviationJensen AlphaSortino RatioTreynor RatioSemi DeviationExpected ShortfallPotential UpsideValue @RiskMaximum Drawdown
UICGX  0.53  0.10  0.08  0.28  0.35 
 1.51 
 3.34 
UIEMX  0.51  0.21  0.18  0.61  0.00 
 1.55 
 4.28 
UIHIX  0.14  0.05 (0.26) 0.55  0.00 
 0.30 
 1.18 
UIIFX  0.50  0.14  0.08  0.51  0.34 
 1.24 
 3.04 
UIGIX  0.62  0.08  0.08  0.23  0.57 
 1.79 
 4.87 
UIGSX  0.22  0.00 (0.43) 0.18  0.19 
 0.46 
 1.14 
UIGRX  0.85  0.19  0.20  0.32  0.66 
 2.49 
 5.60 
UIINX  0.23  0.01 (0.37) 0.21  0.20 
 0.53 
 1.15 
UIISX  0.63  0.02  0.00  0.16  0.61 
 1.54 
 4.46 
UIITX  0.25  0.01 (0.34) 0.24  0.22 
 0.44 
 1.21